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“Accidental Renaissance”: 72 Captivating Photos That Look Like They Should Be Paintings (New Pics)

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Botticelli’s Primavera review – lucid study of a Renaissance masterpiece

Howard Burton’s scholarly look at the companion painting to The Birth of Venus provides a calm and instructive commentary

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: The Hottentot Venus Hails Botticelli’s on the High Seas by Dzifa Benson

The ghost of a black African woman whose body was abusively exhibited for white Europeans directs her own gaze to a different ideal of beauty

The Guardian - UK

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‘Perfect linearity’: why Botticelli’s drawing abilities remain one-of-a-kind

An expansive exhibition in San Francisco brings together the artist’s influential work, including five newly attributed pieces

The Guardian - US

€100m Botticelli painting forgotten for 50 years recovered from Naples home

Restoration planned for renaissance master’s work that was last checked on half a century ago

The Guardian - UK

Diane Arbus on tour, recasting a Jewish myth, and capital works – the week in art

The great American photographer goes on show in Shetland, Sebastian Thomas remakes the Golem and economics gets a blockbuster – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

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Botticelli's Venus is an 'influencer' and Italy is not happy

Sandro Botticelli's iconic goddess of love in his 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” has now become a “virtual influencer” in a new Italian tourism campaign

The Independent UK

Scientists gain insights into Old Master artists’ use of egg in oil paintings

Researchers believe egg was used by likes of Botticelli and Da Vinci for fine-tuning of oil paint properties

The Guardian - UK

Swatch this space for art

Art and the world of Swatch merge in the Swatch Art Journey Collection set to take the iconic timepieces from artists' studios and museum walls straight to people's wrists.

Bangkok Post

Reading Proust in wartime

A century after his death, Marcel Proust's depiction of a vanished world transformed by war is acutely relevant

Salon

Cezanne, Seurat works headline $1 billion sale from late Microsoft co-founder's estate

Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat and Lucian Freud will go under the hammer next month in a sale of artworks from the estate of late Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen that is expected to raise more than $1 billion for philanthropic causes.

Reuters

The Uffizi gallery is suing John Paul Gaultier over ‘illegal’ Botticelli rip offs

Unauthorised reproduction of Italian publicly owned art is strictly illegal

Evening Standard

Uffizi Galleries sue Jean Paul Gaultier over use of Botticelli images

Any use of Italy’s publicly owned art to sell merchandise requires permission and payment of a fee

The Guardian - UK

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