(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 3 - Florence will host the most important ... was discovered in 1975 after the then director of the Medici ...

This museum is always so unbelievably crowded ... bringing perfume to Europe in the 16th century. Since the Medici family was from Florence, the city is a great place to discover more about ...

and Florence was grateful.” As Peter Saenger reports for the Wall Street Journal, a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how Cosimo and the rest of the Medici used the era ...

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco You — especially ... But in the years covered by the exhibition, he was busy in Rome, not Florence. Image Two Medici portraits by Raphael are included ...

Occupying the first and second floors of the U-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi along the banks of the Arno River, the Uffizi Gallery was created by the Medici ... in central Florence – is open ...

But Florence’s Medici family also collected works of art from other cultures. And now the Uffizi Gallery, which started as the family’s offices when they ruled the city, and is now Italy’s ...

Florence's 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici ...

Sketches on the walls of a hidden room in a Florentine chapel may have been the work of Michelangelo, who sought refuge from the Medici family in 1530. Charcoal drawings on the wall of a cellar ...

This former Renaissance residence is now home to Florence's most extensive grouping of museums. The most notable ... treasures once belonging to the Medici family. Recent visitors suggested ...