The Toledo Museum of Art devotes an exhibition to the 17th- and 18th-century Dutch artist, who enjoyed a decades-long career ...

Following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21 and the election of Pope Leo on May 8, many people have wondered where the ...

Raphael’s original model for Leo I had been Pope Julius II, who had brought the artist ... dynasty (he was a second cousin of Cosimo de’ Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany), served as ...

By the time she left Florence in 1620 or 1621, still in her late 20s, she had painted at least seven works for the influential Grand Duke Cosimo II de’ Medici and his family. But as she wrote to ...

Suttermans depicts the well-known collector and arts patron—and second son of the Grand Duke Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Magdalena of Austria—in glorious military dress. Damiano finds “Judith ...

Cosimo de’ Medici, known as Cosimo the Elder (1389–1464 ... in Florence, was a daughter of Laurent II de’ Medici and Madeleine de la Tour d’Auvergne. After her mother’s death shortly after her birth, ...

The trail — built in just five months for Cosimo I de’ Medici — connects Florence ... all the other Florence bridges during World War II. Leaving the Ponte Vecchio, the corridor then ...

Wife of Henry II and Queen of France from 1547 to ... at the age of 14, Catherine de’ Medici had consulted astrologers. Highly superstitious, she also regularly summoned Cosimo Ruggieri, a Florentine ...