Lorenzo the Magnificent was a powerful statesman in Renaissance-era Florence. An enthusiastic patron of the arts, his money ...

Florence is not a city one simply visits, it is a place one learns slowly, through repetition and return. After ...

Is there a greater testament to artistic endeavour than Florence? The Tuscan city positively brims with museums, galleries ...

The Lonely Palette podcast brings art history to everyone. Host Tamar Avishai interviews museum visitors about famous ...

The Italian diplomat and philosopher forever changed the way we understand politics with a work that continues to be studied and debated today: The Prince.

The black, burnished metal building sits in stark contrast to the warm, earthy yellows and oranges of the traditional Renaissance architecture that defines the Tuscan city.

As her Women’s prize-winning novel heads to the Oscars, we rate the author’s best work – from tales of new motherhood to a life-affirming memoir of mortality ...

When the Renaissance blossomed in 14th-century Italy, it did so with decisive backing from the Medici family, whose patronage sustained artists and reshaped Eur ...

Not far from the banks of the Arno River, an ultra-modern block of upmarket flats dubbed the “Black Cube” casts a gloomy ...

“La Reine Margot” dramatizes Margot’s (Isabelle Adjani) wedding to the Protestant Henri de Bourbon (Daniel Auteuil), which was arranged in an effort to quell tensions between the Catholics and ...

The collection of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) includes art made by the best painters of the High Renaissance. The ...