Samantha Morton as the 16th century Queen of France, Cahterine (Image via Prime Video) The Serpent Queen is an American historical drama about Catherine de' Medici, the 16th-century Queen of ...

Palissy’s ceramics, featuring lifelike fish, snakes, and lizards seemingly frozen in motion, were so revered that Catherine de’ Medici commissioned him to build a private grotto at the ...

Of these, most were crafted by Roman sculptors and can be found today in collections of the Capitoline Museums, the Louvre, the Hermitage Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

Catherine Fletcher is the author of The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici which is published in April.

In the 1500s, it was worn as an undergarment to shape the female body. Catherine de Medici, the Queen of France from 1547 to 1559, is often attributed by fashion historians as having introduced ...

61 x 47 cm. (24 x 18.5 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

See inside the inaugural Grand Dîner du Louvre, a glamorous black tie fundraising soirée in support of the Louvre Couture: ...

But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and there’s so much to see that it’s hard to know where to start. As the ...