Cosimo de’ Medici, known as Cosimo the Elder (1389–1464), was the founder of the Medici dynasty and one of the most influential figures in the 15th-century Florence. A banker and statesman, Cosimo was ...

We begin from the roots of the Medici family history, with Cosimo the Elder in the 1430s, visiting the quiet Convent of San Marco - the first example of the Medici’s great patronage of the arts and ...

45 x 37.5 in. (114.3 x 95.2 cm.) ...

The portrait now looms over Mr ... who was himself commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to copy an earlier original. Homer Watson’s Ontario landscape is one of the ...

The death of Isabella de’ Medici, favourite daughter of Cosimo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was as squalid as her life had been glittering. She was strangled in a particularly unpleasant and elaborate way ...

Princess Catherine looked chic in an all-black outfit, but I can’t stop thinking about this striking portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The photo was taken during the candle lighting ...

The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, probably a few months afterward, in 1901 to depict his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández de Soto sitting at a table in hues of blues ...

An upcoming documentary profiles the photographer’s career and his enduring fascination with British life. Martin Parr has always divided opinion. Like a true British icon, you either love him or hate ...

And today was no different. The royal couple stepped out in London for an official event honoring the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Princess Catherine looked chic in an all ...

The conservators took x-ray and infrared images of "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto," a portrait painted by a 19-year-old Picasso in 1901 depicting his Spanish sculptor friend, Mateu Fernández de ...

The White House unveiled its official portrait of first lady Melania Trump on Monday. Mrs. Trump is pictured in a suit, standing in front of a window with the Washington Monument in the rearview ...