The pretty Italian city loved by tourists that was capital for six years before Rome
A city steeped in history, art and culture that's long captivated tourists and visitors was also once the capital of Italy.
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The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
Eager to flush Cosimo out of Florence, he allowed the head of the ... making the Borgia the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the ...
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Brunelleschi's Dome
Its looming, rounded profile, so unlike the angular lines of the Gothic, symbolized the Florentine Republic’s freedom from tyrannous Milan, and even more so, the nascent Renaissance’s ...
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French museum uncovers in storage picture by Renaissance woman master
A provincial museum in northern France on Friday showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of ...
‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...