While immuring wives in walls is strictly outlawed (and largely apocryphal), the practice of hiding things behind sheetrock ...

The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...

Famous globally, the Uffizi Gallery boasts a rich repository of Italian Renaissance art. The grandiose Florentine building ...

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With a passion for arguing and a sharp tongue to match his extraordinary genius, Michelangelo was both the enfant prodige and ...

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...

Partly damaged by the catastrophic 1966 flood of the Arno, Michelangelo's Florence tombstone just got a $118,000 restoration.

A 19th-century cenotaph to Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern was recently restored at Santa Croce thanks to an American donor.

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Florence pays tribute to Michelangelo on the 550th anniversary of his birth by restoring the Buonarroti family tombstone ...

Three experts weigh in on the architectural style that defined Europe for centuries and continues to inspire buildings today ...