Alessandro di Ottaviano de’ Medici, a member of a junior branch of the great Florentine dynasty (he was a second cousin of Cosimo de’ Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany), served as Archbishop ...

Founded in 1784, Florence’s fine arts academy occupies a former 14th-century hospital and traces its roots to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, the prestigious body established by Cosimo de ...

In that novel, a host of Florentine notables including Michelangelo, Cosimo de’ Medici, and Giorgio Vasari try to figure out who stabbed the painter Jacopo Pontormo in the heart with his own chisel.

In ‘Perspectives,’ art and politics clash in Renaissance Italy In Laurent Binet’s new novel, Michelangelo and others grapple with the fallout from a scandalous painting.

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by Fiction Laurent Binet’s novel “Perspective(s)” begins with an artist lying dead in a ...

Wong was 32 when he arrived in New York from San Francisco in 1978 and was drawn immediately to the baroque layers of tags spreading across the city’s surfaces. Wong’s own art, an urban ...

The man in charge of the city, Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, faces threats from the French as well as other regions in Italy. Down in Rome, newly installed Pope Paul IV has declared a holy war on ...

Courtesy the National Trust. The Chartwell portrait was confirmed as a version of a 1705 portrait in the Uffizi Collection in Florence, which was given to Cosimo III de’ Medici.

He is also Duke Cosimo de’ Medici’s right-hand man in matters of art. Why not also a detective. What could be the murderer’s motive? Artists famously hate having their unfinished work seen.

The subtle comedy makes this one of Botticelli’s most famous works. 3. Young Man Holding a Medal of Cosimo de’ Medici (c. 1474–75) ...