The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has just announced a major donation, courtesy of one Cozomo de’ Medici, an anonymous NFT collector. The museum touts the gift of 22 digital artworks by 13 ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When Cosimo I de’ Medici became the second duke of Florence, ...
On April 8, 1492, the de facto ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici — “Il Magnifico,” the model for Machiavelli’s prince, the patron of Botticelli, da Vinci and Michelangelo and the “needle of Italy’s ...
A 17th-century portrait of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici was damaged when a tourist tried to take a picture with the work for social media on Saturday at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy.
A new period drama, The Serpent Queen, has been given a green light by STARZ and will be based on the life of Catherine de' Medici. Medici's life has been discussed in a novel, Catherine De Medici: ...