Resting on a ledge, the young man’s hands hold a medallion ... you would think a portrait by a celebrated Florentine Renaissance artist would be something of a family heirloom.

Unlike similar symbolic items, which were usually painted in the hands of those sitting for portraits during the Renaissance, the object that the young man holds is an original 14th-century work ...

Sotheby’s sold Sandro Botticelli’s circa-1480 portrait of a “Young Man Holding a Roundel ... breaking the Italian Renaissance artist’s sales record and reaffirming a global appetite ...

Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century portrait of a "Young Man Holding a Roundel" is displayed by an employee at Sotheby's Auction house in NYC. EPA An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro ...

I once was young and now am as you see.” She was just 36. This portrait is emblematic of the essential inequality at the heart of Renaissance marriage. Men – and wealthy men at that – were ...

In their naturalism and immediacy, Renaissance portraits communicate to us across time. But as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance ...