Italy On This Day

Pioneer of perspective also worked in mosaics The first panel of Uccello's fresco series, Battle of San Romano, on display at the Nation...

Designs became a template for Renaissance palaces A detail from a Fra Angelico painting is taken to be a depiction of Michelozzo  The influe...

Renaissance ‘genius’ famed for glazed terracotta Della Robbia's Resurrection over the door of the northern sacristy in the Florence duom...

Paintings of muscular men show knowledge of anatomy The portrait of Antonio del Pollaiuolo that appeared in Giorgio Vasari's Lives...

Goldsmith renowned for 'Gates of Paradise' The baptistry doors known as 'The Gates of Paradise'  Sculptor, goldsmith...

Tuscan capital devastated on same day six centuries apart Plaques on the Via San Remigio in Florence mark the level of both floods ...