A treasure trove of Renaissance art and architecture, amazing food and wine, you'll find so many incredible things to do in ...

Florence isn’t just for art lovers—it’s a fantastic destination for families, too! From climbing the Duomo to exploring hands ...

As depicted in Episode 1, the young teenager’s talent catches the eye of Florence’s most prominent patron, Lorenzo de' Medici, who invites Michelangelo to stay with him in his family’s palace.

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 in the ...

Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici 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 ...

By the age of 15, a clearly gifted Michelangelo had been selected to attend an academy run by the city’s ruling Medici family. A prominent member was Lorenzo de' Medici, known as ‘the Magnificent’.

Michele Agnolo di Lodovico Buonarroti was a Florentine artist who trained under Ghirlandaio and enjoyed early patronage from Lorenzo de' Medici before achieving fame in Rome with his revolutionary ...

Our critic Margaret Carrigan goes through the 10 most famous works by Michelangelo. Which are the greatest? And which is the best?

Nerlich points out that this is not the only occasion on which the artist may have represented this disease: “In a previous work on Michelangelo’s sculptures in the Medici chapels in Florence, ...

The Bargello’s Islamic collection testifies to the rich cultural and commercial exchanges between Florence and Muslim powers during the Renaissance (Florence, as early as Piero de’ Medici and Lorenzo ...