The Medici Museum is showcasing Rockefeller family heirlooms, rare artifacts and original artworks in a world-premiere ...

The Medici family businesses had humble beginnings in the wool industry. In 1397, they began a banking practice, branching out from textiles, ...

Today is the public opening for a major exhibition chronicling the Ohio roots of industrialist John D. Rockefeller and his ...

Giovanni di Micci de'Medici (1360-1429) was born into a relatively poor Florentine family and received only a nominal inheritance when his father died of the plague.

A 17th-century portrait of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici was damaged when a tourist tried to take a picture with the work for social media on Saturday at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy.

Medici: The Art of Power. Special | 29m 25s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Discover the rise to power and legacy of the most famous family of the Renaissance. Dr. Rocky Ruggiero examines the rise ...

The Medici family's history is rife with power struggles, intrigue and murder, but organs interred in the family tomb point to another killer — malaria, which the individual may have caught at ...

The Albizzi were one of the oldest families in Florence and led the republican government for two generations. By 1427, they were the most powerful family in the city, and far richer than the Medici.

A man posing in front of a museum’s priceless Medici painting stumbled and ripped the masterpiece in front of stunned onlookers. CCTV video footage from Italy’s Uffizi Gallery in Florence on June 21 ...