The Lamentation of Christ, an oil painting by Sandro Botticelli, depicts Mary Magdalene at the feet of Christ after his crucifixion. The Gospels disagree about whether she actually witnessed the ...

Such is the case with many masterpieces created by the great masters: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Leonardo di Vinci, Botticelli ...

The painting, the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, is one of the most ... that this is no shame-ridden Eve exiled from Eden, or Mary Magdalene awakened to the perils of her vanity.

He noticed that Botticelli painted a fruit in the bottom ... be read as representing another pair of famous maybe-lovers: "Mary Magdalene the prostitute and Christ deposed on the cross." ...

So it is unsurprising, really, to discover that the great Italian artist Botticelli painted another composition ... wax on the reverse of his painting The Holy Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and ...