Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes – her ... Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence offers new insights on sight, ...

Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was ...

In fact, he paved the way for the cultural and social revolutions of the Renaissance ... of Florence’s roof tiles, itself terra-cotta clad yet harmoniously proportioned, like a Greek goddess ...

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Magnificent temples to wealth were designed across Florence and the largest dome in the world was built by Filippo Brunelleschi, the brilliant engineer. Men no longer accepted at face value the ...

Florence, Italy, attracts millions of visitors each year and is well known for its art – art museums and galleries hou ...

At the King’s Gallery, the museum that is part of Buckingham Palace, Drawing the Italian Renaissance offers a ... Leonardo and Raphael were all in Florence. We talk to Julien Domercq, a curator ...

The Royal Academy’s exhibition on Florence does exactly that, exploring the city through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance ...

Through her mother’s specialty in Renaissance history ... her vulnerability.” The Florence and the Machine aesthetic draws from Pre-Raphaelite tawny goddesses; photos by the 19th-century ...

Opening on Nov. 13, "De Toutes Beautés!" includes 108 works of art spanning 10,000 years and various cultures.