In 1541, Venetian nobleman Giovanni Corner was riding high. Still in his thirties, Corner occupied a lofty position in the Republic’s governing body and had recently purchased a Renaissance-style ...
A secretive Renaissance-era passageway in Florence connecting the Uffizi Galleries to the Palazzo Pitti, the Medicis’ former residence, has opened to the public for the first time in its nearly ...
The vandals have sacked Italy again this year. Two German tourists spray painted slogans for a Munich soccer team onto the side of a 460-year-old landmark in Florence cops said — in the latest ...
Not again! Yet another Italian historic landmark has been defaced by tourists in a summer that has seen the country endure a string of brazen incidents resulting in damage to celebrated works of ...
There can be few more flagrant instances of the law of unintended consequences than the way in which Vasari’s Lives of the Artists have all but fatally overshadowed his own artistic career. For while ...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art. By Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney. Norton; 432 pages; $29.95 and £23.99. TOWARDS the end of his life Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most ...
The best-known secret in Florence is known of by many, but visited by almost none, and its story runs through the heart of Florentine history, literally and figuratively. Every tourist in Florence ...
In November 1966, torrential rains sent the Arno River pouring over its banks and flooding the streets of Florence. The surging waters damaged or destroyed thousands of paintings, frescoes and ...
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