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, ...

The Starz series The Serpent Queen is a historical drama that centers on Catherine de Medici, the Queen of France from 1547 ...

On August 24, 1572, just before dawn, the bell of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois began to toll. What happened next would become one of the worst religious massacres of the 16th century. The St. Bartholomew ...

A new exhibition at the Met reveals how the Florentine banking dynasty drew on art to cement its power and legacy Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History When Cosimo I de’ Medici, a 17 ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine dynast ...

After more than eight years of work, conservators presented the newly restored tombs in Florence this week. The tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, 1524–34, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, at the ...

Fans were happy when showrunner Frank Spotnitz announced in January 2019 that filming of season 3 of the historical drama series Medici was already complete. Medici season 3 will continue the saga of ...

The Albizzi were one of the oldest families in Florence and led the republican government for two generations. By 1427, they were the most powerful family in the city, and far richer than the Medici.

Bertoldo di Giovanni and collaborators Frieze for the Portico of the Medici Villa at Poggio a Caiano (detail), ca. 1490 Glazed terracotta 22 7/8 x 571 1/4 inches Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Polo ...

When Cosimo il Vecchio was a young man, he was given a slave girl. Despite his marriage he continued to live with her, away from his family. Their bastard son, Carlo, sought his fortune in Spain and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Renaissance masterpiece Villa Medici, built c1540, is the wedding-cake-perfect white travertine and marble ...