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

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 ...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., the civil rights icon who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., created economic opportunities for Black Americans and ran for president, has been released from the ...

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

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 ...

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

Giada D’Antonio, engaged in a giant slalom training session with her teammates in Dobbiaco, fell after straddling a gate. The sixteen-year-old from Naples was immediately assisted by the ...

Rebuild as soon as possible the transplant team” at Monaldi Hospital in Naples, where activities are currently suspended following the case of the child who received a “damaged” heart. The ...

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.

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