Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...
Laurent Binet’s Renaissance epistolary novel blends the postmodern playfulness of Umberto Eco with the vigour of Dashiell ...
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.
During the documentary, historical reenactments put actors in the roles of various Black figures during the Renaissance depicted in art, such as Duke Lorenzo de Medici and Juan de Pareja.
And, like much Italian art and architecture ... in March of 1565 for the wedding of Paolo Orsino and Isabella de' Medici. As part of the festivities and wedding feast, an entire ox was roasted ...
After centuries in a private collection and hidden under a dense layer of overpainting, a Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpture is finally coming to light at Rijksmuseum. Its arrival at the Amsterdam ...
As a patron of the arts, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has made Lorenzo ... Medici role. Henceforth, he declared, his field agents would insist that all appraisals on donated works of art ...
Now a proud resident of Abu Dhabi, Quinn sees this display as an opportunity to contribute to the city’s thriving art scene. Sculptor Lorenzo Quinn said, ‘I’ve always been passionate about ...
But when descendants of the 17th-century cardinal Flavio Chigi had thick layers of dark overpainting removed, they realised they owned an extraordinary sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ...
After her death he pursued headier excitements, studying philosophy first at Ferrara, then at the glistening Florence of Lorenzo de’ Medici. Of the scholarly connections Pico made in the latter ...