Art Institute of Chicago

The Uffizi museum in Florence said on Oct. 10 it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorized use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," its Italian Renaissance masterpiece.

Painted by Sandro Botticelli in the mid-1480s, it shows the nude goddess Venus standing on a giant scallop shell, covering her loins with her long blonde hair.

Users of the TripAdvisor website have voted the Acropolis Museum in Athens the best museum in Greece, making it ninth in the world.

Users of the TripAdvisor website have voted the Acropolis Museum in Athens the best museum in Greece, making it ninth in the world.

More than a half million visitors from around the world toured the exhibition “Heaven and Earth. Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections”, which was hosted in three renowned US museums since October 2014.

The exhibition winds up on Sunday at the Art Institute of Chicago, after successful runs at the J. Paul Getty museum of Los Angeles and the National Gallery in Washington D.C.