“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” ...

His best-known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera. In 2016, an exhibition at London's V&A Museum, Botticelli Reimagined, explored the artist's enduring impact, particularly on today's pop ...