Italy On This Day

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...

Writer of the 'Manifesto of the Renaissance' met an early death Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: this portrait by Cristofano de...

Banker who founded the Medici dynasty This portrait of Cosimo by Jacopo da Contormo  can be viewed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence ...