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| Sandro Botticelli: Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, ca.1470-75
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Sandro Botticelli Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK The Descent of the Holy Ghost
Sandro Botticelli at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan The Resurrected Christ, ca.1480
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK Virgin and Child
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia St Jerome, 1498-1505 St Dominic, 1498-1505
Kress Foundation Collection (Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans) 3 paintings online in high resolution
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna Madonna with Child and Two Angels, ca.1490 (Zoom)
Sandro Botticelli at the Louvre Museum, Paris Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, ca.1483-85
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Adoration of the Christ Child, ca.1500
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Ideal Portrait of a Woman
Vatican Museums, Vatican City Paintings on the north and south walls of the Sistine Chapel
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, ca.1485-90
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina The Nativity
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 5 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Glasgow Museums, Scotland The Annunciation
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York Annunciation, 1490s
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French) (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy Madonna con Bambino e angeli, 1455-60
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish) See the FIRST Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh The Adoration of the Child, ca.1500
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow The Annunciation, 1490
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French) La lamentation (Pieta)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK The Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK Portrait of a Lady, known as Smeralda Bandinelli, 1470s
Virtual Uffizi
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 3 works online when last checked
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project 8 works online
Sandro Botticelli at The Art Renewal Center
Sandro Botticelli at The Artchive
Sandro Botticelli at The Athenaeum 111 works online by Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli in the Web Gallery of Art
Sandro Botticelli in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian) In-depth analysis of La Primavera
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Sandro Botticelli at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Memory of the Netherlands Project Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Leipzig, Germany
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
California Literary Review St. Augustine in His Studio, ca.1480
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation Analysis of The Birth of Venus
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The BBC The Annunciation
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sandro Botticelli Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Vicious circles", 2001 review by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Portrait of a Young Man, ca.1480-85
The London Evening Standard "Divine inspiration for Botticelli", 2001 article by Brian Sewell
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