Olive oil, too. Botticelli, we’re guessing ... In this wide format painting that was probably a spalliera (a panel made for newlyweds, to be used as a headboard or fitted above a cassone ...

It actually comes straight from Botticelli’s studio ... They found that all three paintings were made using egg tempera and oil paint. They also all featured two coats of gesso as a base.

Botticelli died in 1510 ... the renaissance artist’s studio included the use of shared egg tempera and oil paint with a base of double-coated gesso, all typical of paintings from the era.

Experts cleaning a supposed imitation of a Botticelli painting have discovered it was actually created in the Renaissance master's own studio. The work had been thought to be a later copy of the ...

A painting dismissed as a copy has been confirmed as a Botticelli masterpiece. The 400-year-old painting made its way from the studio of the Florentine master to the collection of philanthropist ...