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.

Lorenzo the Magnificent was a powerful statesman in Renaissance-era Florence. An enthusiastic patron of the arts, his money funded some of the best-known art of the era. But behind his generous and ...

From admiring Renaissance art to indulging in gelato shops, these are the best things to do in Florence, according to locals.

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 ...

“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 ...

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

A single-family home in Somerset that sold for $750,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Franklin Township area in the past week.

Painted around 1545 for the Medici court in Florence, this is one of the most unsettling images of love ever made. The ...

A single painting can sometimes conceal many secrets. Here, we take a look at 10 famous artworks that are known for their hidden secrets.

A Rothko, a Twombly and a Surrealist box with a Medici princess by Joseph Cornell are estimated to sell for $145 million.