With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...

If you’re a huge fan of Renaissance art, you should definitely take a trip to Florence, Naples or Rome. There are many ...

Guests admire Renaissance masterpieces inside the ... high-quality cultural experiences that bring Florence's history, art, and architecture to life. By granting access to the newly reopened ...

“The cradle of the Renaissance, Florence was a crucible of artistic innovation, nurturing talents such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Sandro Botticelli. “This era saw the ...

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

Bundled into a hay-basket, his corpse was smuggled to Florence for a magnificent funeral. The artist's life story became the climax of Vasari's art history textbook - “The Lives of the Artists”.

is a delightfully inventive whodunit , set in Florence, Italy, smack in the middle of the Renaissance, and populated with the era’s most famous and infamous personalities. The epistolary novel ...

both in Florence, on Sept. 26. It looks set to be one of the major European art shows of the fall. The restorers dabbed lightly at the vast blue background that surrounds a lone Christ ...

The best time to visit Florence is between May and September when warm weather ushers in art festivals, open-air dining and the kind of Italian sunshine that inspired the Renaissance painters.