LONDON — A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie's said Monday ...

Among others, we must take Walter Isaacson’s otherwise commendable da Vinci biography to task for perpetuating the fiction that Leonardo left Florence for Milan on behalf of Lorenzo de’ Medici ...

But the saga of Cosimo de Medici also suggests there are limits to the control patrons have over the power of art. “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570” is on view at the ...

“Virgin with the Laughing Child” is displayed alongside exquisite draperies painted on linen by Da Vinci, highlighting remarkable stylistic similarities to Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) at ...

Most of the show centers on Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574), plucked from a “junior” line of Medicis to become the Duke of Florence at age 17. But he knew what he was about.

Lorenzo de’ Medici died in 1492. Suspiciously, that is also the year the Borgias rose to power in Rome. You can watch Showtime’s The Borgias , starring Jeremy Irons and Holliday Grainger, on ...

To be sure, Carlson's androgynous take on double-dealing Lorenzo de Medici injects an extra dose of feline danger into Alfred de Musset's tapestry of political intrigue in 16th-century Florence.

The original Lorenzo de Medici was Cosimo’s brother, who founded the bank that is the source of the Medici fortune. He was assassinated in the first series in the year of 1440 in one of history ...

But Lorenzo de'Medici, wary of Pazzi ambition, kept his rivals out of government office during the 1470s. When a greedy nephew of Pope Sixtus IV approached the younger Pazzi with a plan to ...

Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...