Italy On This Day

Patron of the arts sympathised with Galileo Francesco Barberini knew Galileo from his days as a student at the University of Pisa F...

Feuding with the Popes led to the destruction of a city A portrait of Ranuccio II Farnese by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Denys ...

Political pontiff dominated by sister-in-law The portrait of Innocent X by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, notable for a terse fa...

Baroque works of art were designed to illustrate papal power Algardi's extraordinary marble relief, Fuga d'Attila , which he...