Italy On This Day

Brilliant sculpture commissioned by French Cardinal Michelangelo's masterpiece, La Pietà Michelangelo Buonarotti agreed the con...

Medici soldier who fathered Cosimo I de' Medici Giovanni dalle Bande Nere: a portrait by an unknown artist Giovanni dalle Band...

Renaissance prince turned his back on the Church Altobello Melone's portrait of Cesare Borgia Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alex...

Death of the friar who was to inspire best-selling novel by Tom Wolfe A stark portrait of Savonarola, painted by Fra Bartolomeo sh...