After 40 years and a trillion dollars, the nation has little to show for its war on drugs. Prisons are beyond crowded and there's a new outbreak in the heroin epidemic. If it's time for a change, it ...

A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art market’s resilience. Sotheby’s in ...

Was Sandro Botticelli a proto-graphic novelist? That’s a suggestion raised in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new show “Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes,” which features eight works by Botticelli ...

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Over 10 years after its discovery, the painting found in the Loire Valley church has been confirmed to originate from the renaissance. Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is ...

From the 1800s until just a few years ago, parishioners at the church of Saint Félix in the small town of Champigny-en-Beauce in France’s Loire Valley attended services in the presence of a painting ...

A rare painting by famed Italian Old Master Sandro Botticelli—one of only roughly a dozen portraits attributed to the artist, and one of only several examples still in a private collection—will be ...

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