Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...

Florence, Italy, attracts millions of visitors each year and is well known for its art – art museums and galleries hou ...

We take a closer look at hermits in art, from ancient statuaries to garden gnomes reimagined by Paul McCarthy.

The elusive wisdom of a Chinese sage is widely quoted but challenging to understand. Each attempt at translation confronts ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and ...

A ‘Magnificent’ military entrepreneur? The involvement of the Medici Bank in the arms trade (1482-1494). Business History, Vol. 66, Issue. 3, p. 709. Following the life of one man, Piero de' Medici, ...

The Golden Gate Park outpost of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents the first major American exhibition devoted ...

By Jillian Steinhauer Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.

the Uffizi Gallery was created by the Medici family at the end of the 16th century. Today, the museum is any art lover's dream: it still displays the family's prominent art collection, which ...

Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a savvy French curator who had been working for the resistance Sonja Anderson This brief ...

It is something of an Italian Renaissance trope that during the 15th and 16th centuries, painting rose in social and intellectual status, ranking itself alongside the art of poetry. Less known is that ...

One of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's most intriguing and impressively comprehensive exhibitions of 2024 is "Tamara de Lempicka," the first major U.S. retrospective of the glamorous, ...