While wandering through an antique book fair in Florence, Italy, in 2005, Jane Fortune, a philanthropist from Indiana, came across a book about Plautilla Nelli, Florence’s first known female artist, ...

Crowned Europe’s Best City of 2025, Florence has it all: stunning art and architecture made by the world’s greatest Renaissance masters, an idyllic subtropical climate perfect for basking in the ...

Few families have shaped a city and a civilization quite like the Medicis. Known for being patrons of the arts, they funded ...

From Renaissance art to gelato shops, here's how locals recommend exploring the Tuscan capital. Pallabazzar recommends seeing the historic center of Florence at different times of the day. In the ...

From Belle Époque posters to radical performance art, 2025 delivered exhibitions that pushed boundaries and opened ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) In Florence Saturday community members came together for a free art show put on by Brushwork’s Arts and Industry. “Typically I would come to work, close my door and work, and ...

It’s the rare school that teaches core skills such as drawing, with an emphasis on the spirit and rules of Classicism. To achieve anything that lasts, talent, skill, and discipline are essentials. I ...

Portrait paintings are sometimes described as windows into the soul. The Renaissance likenesses presented in the Metropolitan Museum’s “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570” have other ...

THE feast of St. John Baptist, on the 24th of June, was the chief religious festival of Florence, and was celebrated with special solemnity and splendor. Every year, fifteen days before the feast, ...