Italy On This Day

Art enthusiast who was Botticelli’s major patron Botticelli's   1479 Portrait of a Young Man, is thought to be Lorenzo di Pierfran...

Patron of the arts who sponsored Michelangelo and Botticelli A portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bro...

Noblewoman hailed as embodiment of female perfection Simonetta Vespucci, as recalled by Sandro Botticelli in his 1480s Portrait of...

Preacher Savonarola's war on Renaissance 'excesses' The statue of Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza Savonarola in Florence T...

Renaissance master was forgotten until the 19th century Botticelli's The Birth of Venus , painted in 1485 Early Renaissance arti...