Florence

Shen Yun Performing Arts is bringing its second performance to Austin, Texas, and debuting in Italy on Dec. 27. Taking the audience on a journey through 5,000 years of divine ...

ROME—An accident at a supermarket construction site in the Italian city of Florence on Friday killed at least ...

In Florence, seeing a well dressed man is not only normal, it's expected.

You can visit the safehouse where Michelangelo holed up like a fugitive fearing for his life, in 1530, ...

In 1504, the young and ambitious Spanish artist Alonso Berruguete arrived in Italy with an aspiration to become ...

FLORENCE, Italy—Visitors to one of Florence’s most iconic monuments—the Baptistry of San Giovanni, opposite the city’s Duomo—are getting ...

It was a moment that none of us will ever forget. When we arrived by train in Tuscany, ...

Once ruled by the powerful Medici family, Florence hosts some of the most beautiful treasures of the Italian ...

I'd never seen a bathroom with such a tiny shower in it, and I wasn't quite sure about ...

Of very great advantage to architecture, in truth, was the new method of Filippo Brunelleschi, who imitated and ...

Near the territory of Prato, which is ten miles distant from Florence, in a village called Savignano, was ...

How bountiful and benign Heaven sometimes shows itself in showering upon one single person the infinite riches of ...

The greatest gifts are often seen, in the course of nature, rained by celestial influences on human creatures; ...

There is no doubt that in every city those who, by reason of any talent, come into some ...

Donato, who was called Donatello by his relatives and wrote his name thus on some of his works, ...

At length, after the Lives of many craftsmen who have been excellent, some in colouring, some in drawing, ...

Fra Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, a Carmelite, was born in Florence in a street called Ardiglione, below the ...

Very great is the advantage bestowed by learning, without exception, on all those craftsmen who take delight in ...

Many men are created by nature small in person and in features, who have a mind full of ...

At the same time with the elder Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent, which was truly a golden age ...

Entering Florence’s Accademia Gallery is like entering the Church of David — a temple of humanism. At the ...

Some 18 years ago, Minnesota-born Cody Swanson arrived in Italy on a two-way ticket as a fresh-faced 18-year-old ...

Their artworks are icons of Italy and their names are among the most well-known in the art world: ...

An Interview with New Masters Academy Founder Joshua Jacobo Many of us have been inspired to pick up ...

Florence is a city of secrets. As you walk through the ancient streets, large wooden doors open, revealing ...

Italy's Florence Cathedral, commonly known as the "Duomo," dominates Florence’s skyline. Located in Cathedral Square, the cathedral complex also ...

FLORENCE, Italy—The Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria Carmine in Florence is where you’ll find one of the most ...