Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most ...

The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance ...

Now back on display after a decade of restoration work, the Italian mannerist Parmigianino's "huge" altarpiece "The Vision of ...

Scott Young, bestselling author of Ultralearning, explores why it’s so difficult for people to learn new skills, arguing that three factors must be met to make advancement possible ...

They brought to life a vision of an ideal city ... Among them were, for instance, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari and Filarete, a Florentine architect who designed Sforzinda – a utopian city that ...

space was designed for the ruling Medici dynasty in 1565 by artist and architect Giorgio Vasari. The trail — built in just five months for Cosimo I de’ Medici — connects Florence’s three ...

ROME (AP) — 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 ...

The corridor, named after the Renaissance architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari, who designed it, is some 750 meters (820 yards) long. It stretches from the Uffizi Museums to the imposing ...

In 1565, a simple, elegant hallway was built atop Ponte Vecchio (or the Old Bridge) in Florence. The passage was restricted ...