Sandro Botticelli

Anita Klesch and A. Gary Klesch, founders of The Klesch Collection, are funding a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in history of art and technology at Birkbeck, University of London, focused on artifi…

Simonetta Vespucci, the model for Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, likely died at age 23 from a bleeding pituitary tumor, possibly triggered by dancing or assault, according to a new study in Endocrin…