The Pitti Palace and the amazing art collections contained within stand as a strong expression of the power of the Medici dukes. The prominent family returned to Florence in the sixteenth and ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

Nowhere else in the world does a palace quite like the Europeans. European Palaces were designed to show off the power and ...

In the past, American tourists often spent several years completing the Grand Tour of Europe, a testament to the continent’s ...

During a first-time visit to Florence, see the Florence Cathedral Il Duomo, Uzzifi, The Palazzo Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, ...

loans came from Palazzo Pitti, Gallerie degla Uffizi in Florence, the Fashion Museum Bath, the Museum of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Costume Institute), and the ...

Judith and her Maidservant, c.1615-17, oil on canvas, 114 x 93.5 cm. Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti Baroque art, particularly history paintings, sought to capture the decisive moment.

Also a key figurehead in the family’s art custodianship, the tastemaker-agitator might have welcomed an unusual flourish or two in her palace. “Cayetana is not here, but I think she would love ...

In addition, the frescoes, stuccoes, carvings, silk wallpapers, draperies, paintings, furniture and ornaments were ... Alessandra Griffo, curator of the Royal Apartments at Palazzo Pitti remarks: ...

The passageway—known as the Vasari Corridor—connects Florence’s lush Boboli Gardens to the world-famous Uffizi Galleries, an art museum ... from their home, Palazzo Pitti, to their ...

A secretive Renaissance-era passageway in Florence connecting the Uffizi Galleries to the Palazzo Pitti, the Medicis ... (i.e. without the 1,000 paintings that had lined it in the 20th-century).