The Vasari Corridor, the famed covered and elevated passage designed by Giorgio Vasari and linking Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo ...

Benvenuto Cellini’s bust of Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, 1546-47. Photo: By permission of the Ministry of Culture, Photo: Antonio Quattrone ...

In “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” a sumptuous, vigorous exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we join the family in its final hurrah of civic brilliance. Most of the ...

The Medici family of Florence, Italy, was one of those families. The Medicis were a key merchant and banking family from the 14th through 17th centuries. Four popes and two queens came from the ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Justus Sustermans’s total sales are going up, and ...

A bronze bust of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici reigns over the first part of “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” a new exhibition opening June 26 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum ...