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 ...

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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 ...

You will be based in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance and seat of the House of Medici whose patronage was pivotal to academic and artistic progress. Accompanied by art historian and ...

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 ...

Showcasing the work of Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico, Salvo and Giulio Paolini and Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake, ...