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

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The medieval city of Siena is a treasure trove of Renaissance art, which is the focus of a new exhibition at the National Gallery. Michael Hodges heads to Tuscany to experience the magic for himself ...

This shift in requirement could also have been influenced by the rise of prominent artists and writers like Giorgio Vasari who is considered the first art historian in Western history. Vasari ...

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...

One, by Ascanio Condivi, was written under his close supervision; the other was included by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists. Vasari, who worshipped Michelangelo, begins with a passage that ...

Tom Conti stars as Medici court artist Giorgio Vasari in a story of pride, love and legacy combined with an epic journey through the art of the Renaissance. Written by Eileen Horne.

Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine 16th-century artist and writer Giorgio Vasari drastically downplayed Siena’s importance, art historians have been giving Florence the credit for starting ...