Are Botticelli paintings in the public domain?

Question

What I mean is... say I found a beautiful file of one of his paintings and wanted to have it printed out as a print at the local print shop. (instead of paying 125 bucks for a print at some poster site).

Is that legal?

Answer 1

Not only is that illegal, but copying damages the original. And, hopefully, people at the copy shop know better than to do that and would send you away.

Answer 2

You will find that images of the Renaissance master's works are under licence of the museums that own them. Therefore you would be in breech of copyright law I should imagine if you produce an unauthorised print.