Borgia Their name has become a byword for murder and incest, making the Borgia the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope ...

The House of Medici came to prominence in Italy in the fifteenth century as ... the arts turned Florence into a leading centre of the Renaissance and the Medici Bank was one of the most successful ...

Explore Italy's most beautiful cities of ... 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 ...

His engraving Battle of the Nudes shows a remarkable attention to musculature and movement, hinting at his involvement in ...

Vasari recorded the lives of artists and the contribution of the Medici, in a precursor of ... the end always justified the means. Throughout Italy, republics and duchies blossomed under the ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

During the Renaissance, this ancient practice ... Even so, fork use started to spread throughout Italy. When Catherine de’ Medici arrived in France in 1533, she attempted to popularize fork ...

The Vasari Corridor was designed by Giorgio Vasari, the Italian Renaissance architect and author whose work laid the foundation for modern-day art history. Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici commissioned ...

The Medici family has determined the fate of Tuscany from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ... ascent of the most famous bankers' family in Italian history. SBS TV launches the new series ...