Explore the legacy of the Medici family through its most influential figures, from Cosimo the Elder to Catherine de' Medici.

Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

The Medici family was a powerful and influential dynasty that dominated the political, economic, and cultural life of Florence and much of Italy from the 15th to the 18th century. Known for their ...

Laurent Binet’s Renaissance epistolary novel blends the postmodern playfulness of Umberto Eco with the vigour of Dashiell ...

The role of the ultra-wealthy has morphed from one of shared social responsibility and patronage to the freewheeling ...

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 Canadian paintings in the Commons ...

This humble and historic 16th century hotel, which once hosted Emperor Maximilian I and Cosimo de’ Medici, re-opened in June 2023 after a major renovation. Its 43 modernist rooms clad in blond wood ...