Italy On This Day

Pious woman from ordinary family helped the Pope reorganise the church Tiepolo's 1746 painting of St Catherine, in  the Kunsthistorische...

Brutal tyrant or sensitive patron of the arts? A portrait of Sigismondo by Piero della Francesca, painted in about 1451 One of the m...

Learned lady sacrificed happiness for a political alliance Ippolita Maria Sforza's marriage helped forge a strong link between Nap...

Condottiero fought to improve the town of his birth Ludovico Gonzaga in a detail from a painting by Andrea Mantegna Ludovico Gonz...