The 2,500-foot-long Vasari Corridor impressed guests of the Medicis and other leaders that followed (including Benito ...

The Louvre’s restoration of La Maestà has shed new light on the painter’s techniques and influences, while a new exhibition ...

For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has been overshadowed by his more famous pupil Giotto, who—with his attention to ...

Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most ...

The passage was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence, and designed by the renowned Renaissance painter ...

A 16th-century secret passageway built for the ruling family of Florence, Italy, has opened to the public for the first time ...

He left no written record of his own. His biographer, Painter-Historian Giorgio Vasari, wrote nearly a century after Fra Angelico’s death. Vasari’s principal sources were a pious Dominican ...

An exhibition at London’s Royal Academy focuses on a time when the three Renaissance artists were all in Florence, developing ...

The Vasari Corridor was commissioned by Cosimo de Medici as part of the celebrations for the marriage between his son and ...

Florence's Vasari Corridor, a 750-meter-long elevated ... Throughout history, it has been walked by artists, politicians, and even dictators. In 1938, Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini ...

The Uffizi’s hidden Medici passageway has opened to the public for the first time following an eight-year restoration.View on ...

A view of the ‘Corridoio Vasariano’ of Vasari Corridor, in Florence ... famous for its collections of ancient sculptures and paintings. The corridor was closed in 2016 to allow restoration work to ...