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New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, ...

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is one of the most famous sculptures in the history of art. Endlessly reproduced and ...

As 1557 dawns, the aging painter Jacopo da Pontormo is found dead in front of the frescoes he has been laboring over for 11 years in the chapel of San Lorenzo ... Cosimo de’ Medici, the Duke ...

Her short life ended in her early 20s in 1475 or ... Botticelli completed “Primavera” (Spring) in 1482 for a relative of Lorenzo de’ Medici. The painting depicts a classical allegory ...

Plethon spent most of his life in Mystra in the Despotate of Morea in the southern ... He also taught the influential Florentine statesmen and bankers Pietro de’ Medici and Lorenzo de’ Medici; the ...

He designed and carved tombs for the family and also he designed the Medici Chapel ... Library at San Lorenzo 1532 Visited Rome, met Tommaso de'Cavalieri - the love of his life - and presented ...

Lorenzo de’ Medici. Lorenzo de’ Medici ... further disgracing his mother. In the final years of her life, Marie sought refuge in Cologne, at the home of her friend, the painter Peter Paul Rubens, and ...

“This is Mary Magdalene at a later moment in her life when she’s living a hermetic ... Raphael’s most expensive painting, Portrait of Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino (1518) sold at ...

Lorenzo sustained injuries in the town’s defence ... Catherine had now entered into the French royal family – a life-changing experience. Catherine de Medici's marriage: was it happy? Catherine’s ...