Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

Nasty rumours, intricate plots, boldfaced lies, declarations of love, and accusations of murder – letters containing all these flit across Renaissance Italy in Laurent Binet’s epistolary Perspectives ...

Two other Leos—Popes Leo X and XI—were members of the great Medici clan of art patrons. Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, Pope Leo X, a son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was the subject of one of ...

The Medici family was definitely one of the richest dynasties in Renaissance Italy and perhaps they were the most influential patrons of the arts in history.

At the height of Medici power, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici rule the city as patrons of art, intellect, and political strategy. But behind the grandeur of carnival celebrations and jousts ...

Art should project “moral harmonies ... Draped in billowing opals, she is Lorenzo de’ Medici, who kills the tyrant of Florence. Bernhardt here is steely, lost in thought before a gilded ...

The pub’s walls are decorated with European-themed pictures, including copies of works by Monet and Matisse, and a portrait of Lorenzo de'Medici ... music, art. "But for some reason, we ...

At just 14 years old, in 1562, he was appointed cardinal in Rome, where he acquired a palace to house his art collection—a building ... the assassination of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici—a brutal ...

Eleven years before his death, Pontormo had been tasked with decorating the Basilica of San Lorenzo with ... the first European art historian. He is also Duke Cosimo de’ Medici’s right-hand ...

The vanity, the costumes, the jewelry, the festivities, the art representing human feelings ... and had enjoyed the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici before moving to Rome, where he'd sculpted ...

In 2021, South African-American entrepreneur Art Finch began pitching government ... A self-described descendant of the Italian House of Medici, Prince Lorenzo de’ Medici, is another member ...