Italy On This Day

Daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent supported popes and poets Lucrezia de' Medici Lucrezia Maria Romola de’ Medici, who as a newborn bab...

One of first to paint realistic landscapes A self-portrait of Alesso Baldovinetti from a fragment of damaged fresco, now in the Accade...

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