Now, a correction. On Tuesday, we ran a story about the famous Renaissance painting the "Birth Of Venus" by Sandro Boticelli. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You know the image - a nude Venus, head tilted, red ...

Climate activists plastered photos of Campi Bisenzio, a Tuscan town ravaged by flooding last year, over the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, ...

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the ...

Like many famous artworks from the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) has a larger-than-life quality. The painting, which depicts the Roman goddess of beauty emerging ...

screenprint in a unique colour combination on Arches Aquarelle paper image: 637 by 943 mm. 25⅛ by 37⅛ in. sheet: 814 by 1119 mm. 32 by 44 in. Executed in 1984; this impression is one of 36 trial ...

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Lady Gaga put on a show while leaving the airport in Athens, Greece on Wednesday. The “Applause” singer, 28, sashayed her way through the airport wearing a blonde wig, a see-through skirt with a thong ...

NPR offers a correction to a piece earlier in the week in which we referred to the mollusk in the famous "Birth of Venus" painting by Botticelli... Correction: What Is The Shell In The 'Birth Of Venus ...