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

Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio. He’s the blockbuster artist ...

Following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21 and the election of Pope Leo on May 8, many people have wondered where the ...

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

There were 13 Leos before him: The first, Leo the Great, was a fifth-century theologian who helped heal the doctrinal divisions among early Christians; Leo X, a member of the powerful Medici family, ...

condemned art “exciting to lust”; shortly thereafter, Pope Pius IV ordered loincloths to be painted on the Sistine Chapel’s most brazenly nude figures. (Notably, characters in “Perspective ...

(See also: The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's masterpiece ... in 1482 for a relative of Lorenzo de’ Medici. The painting depicts a classical allegory, with the action proceeding from right ...

Included is a 19th-century bronze version of “David,” plaster casts of the four famed allegorical figures seen on the tombs of the Medici Chapel ... Museum of Art donated its once-prized ...

Received commission to paint the Battle of Cascina 1505 Summoned ... He designed and carved tombs for the family and also he designed the Medici Chapel 1524 Commissioned to design the Laurentian ...

It was to be Florence’s answer to the Sistine Chapel. But on the first ... architect and the first European art historian. He is also Duke Cosimo de’ Medici’s right-hand man in matters ...

Houston’s renowned Rothko Chapel, a meditative landmark that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is reopening to the public on Tuesday (17 December) following an extended ...

It follows a recent study revealing that a woman in another one of his Sistine Chapel paintings ... sculptor under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici. In 1496, already known as sculptor ...