Sandro Botticelli art links 

Sandro Botticelli: Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, ca.1470-75

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Art Institute of Chicago

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

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
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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)  

Sandro Botticelli at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Adoration of the Christ Child

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

National Gallery, London, UK

Sandro Botticelli at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Sandro Botticelli

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Sandro Botticelli at the Prado Museum, Madrid
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (I), ca.1483

Sandro Botticelli at the Prado Museum, Madrid
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (I), ca.1483

Sandro Botticelli at the Prado Museum, Madrid
The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (II), ca.1483

Sandro Botticelli at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

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
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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

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Annunciation, 1490s

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  
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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)  
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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
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5 works by Sandro Botticelli online

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

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Portrait of a Lady, known as Smeralda Bandinelli, 1470s

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 

Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
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Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Portrait of a Young Woman

CGFA  

Google Art Project   NEW!
8 works online

Rasiel's Wallpapers
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The Birth of Venus

The Athenaeum  
111 works online by Botticelli

Web Gallery of Art  

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)  
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California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
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State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

University of Leipzig, Germany  

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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
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Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sandro Botticelli  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

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.

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)  

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

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Botticelli (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) search inside Sandro Botticelli 1444/45-1510 look inside Sandro Botticelli: The Picture Cycle for Dante's Divine Comedy look inside Botticelli look inside Botticelli: Images of Love and Spring look inside Botticelli