Art fraud was a common occurrence in the Italian Renaissance. Even a young Michelangelo took part in such a scheme, long ...

Sixtus IV developed his reputation by blocking the Ottoman Turks advance in Smyrna, daring to declare war on the powerful Este family in Ferrara, and plotting Lorenzo de’Medici’s assassination ...

Founded in 1973, Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici (LdM) is one of Italy's most established international higher education institutions, with its main campus in the historical center of Florence, and sister ...

Works like the marble statue of David or his awe-inspiring ceiling for the ... an academy run by the city’s ruling Medici family. A prominent member was Lorenzo de' Medici, known as ‘the Magnificent’.

He designed a monumental equestrian statue in bronze and in 1497 completed ... who participated in a 1478 assassination attempt on Lorenzo de’Medici. Toward the end of this period in Florence ...

They're also both clean-shaven, deviating from traditional depictions of Jesus with a beard, which thought to be inspired by an ancient Greek statue ... patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.

Michele Agnolo di Lodovico Buonarroti had briefly been apprenticed to the great Florentine master Ghirlandaio and had enjoyed the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici before moving to Rome, where he'd ...

What is certain is that he had advanced anatomical erudition born from his dissections, which he began to practice at a very young age in the convent of Santo Spirito, after the death in 1492 of his ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine ...