THE DAILY PIC (#1601): It’s not often I come across Renaissance art on a trek through Chelsea galleries. On a recent reconnoiter, however, I discovered this 16 th-century painting, attributed to a ...

A secretive Renaissance-era passageway in Florence connecting the Uffizi Galleries to the Palazzo Pitti, the Medicis’ former residence, has opened to the public for the first time in its nearly ...

The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art. By Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney. Norton; 432 pages; $29.95 and £23.99. TOWARDS the end of his life Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most ...

On November 4, 1966, Tuscany’s Arno River, swollen by days of rain, inundated Florence with the worst flood the city had seen in centuries. The raging waters caused catastrophic damage to cultural ...

In November 1966, torrential rains sent the Arno River pouring over its banks and flooding the streets of Florence. The surging waters damaged or destroyed thousands of paintings, frescoes and ...

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ROME, June 29 (Reuters) - A handwritten letter by Renaissance artist and historian Giorgio Vasari has been returned to its owners in Tuscany more than 20 years after it was stolen, Italian police said ...

The season of Mannerism shines in Tuscany with the artistic production of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Andrea Del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo, Baccio Bandinelli, Rosso Fiorentino and Giorgio Vasari. The life ...

For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the ...

"I would like to play a role where the character acts beyond reason" ...