It depicts the first Medici pope, the son of Lorenzo ... following which he commissioned Michelangelo to paint The Last Judgement for the Sistine Chapel. He also took over as architect for the ...

Commentators have already noted that the last Pope Leo (XIII) was known for his devotion to social justice and the Virgin Mary. However, there is a longer history of popes called Leo — there have been ...

Michelangelo maintained contact with the Medici family and ... of Michelangelo’s most famous paintings was part of his work on the decoration of the Sistine Chapel. The Last Judgment, however ...

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

To conclude the tour, we will reach San Lorenzo Squar,e home to the iconic unfinished church, and enter the Medici Chapels to explore the pinnacle of the Medicis' art patronage and view the work of ...

A little known palace, part of the Bargello Museums complex, tells the Baroque history of one of Florence's most important ...

The chapel is shaped as an octagon and features 14 large paintings by the Russian-born Mark Rothko, one of the United States’ most prolific mid-20th-century painters. The paintings, which use ...

VALLEY FORGE — America250PA unveiled a new bell sculpture at the historic Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge ... initiative — a statewide public art project to commemorate the 250th ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city imprinted with seven centuries of cultural history.

In a fusion of science and art, anatomy takes center stage—in the intimate dissection theater of Pistoia, in the grand wax collection of Florence's La Specola, and in the two skeletons with their circ ...