Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Urbino charms with its palace, art and hilltop setting - StevanZZ / Alamy Stock Photo In Florence, the streets teem year-round, ...

HistoriCity: Florence is a mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim that challenges players to rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, ...

FLORENCE, Italy — For nearly 600 years, Dominican friars in Florence, Italy, have inhabited the Convent of San Marco, one of the city’s great spiritual and cultural hubs, renowned for its frescoes by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spend a weekend in Florence, home to a trove of world-famous art and architecture - lucentius/Getty Images Firenze, the cradle of ...

Florence has long been among Europe's most popular tourist destinations thanks to its historical significance, Renaissance art and museums, and sheer beauty. It’s the ideal of a wine-and-food-fueled ...

One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena: The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are movie stills and posters. They look like photographs ...

The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards. This, like so much of the popular understanding of 15th- and 16th-century Florence, is one of those truisms so often ...

With a major exhibition taking place at the V&A from next month, Renaissance Art is being given, well, a bit of a renaissance (‘scuse the pun) for a modern-day audience. Michelozzo, An Adoring Angel, ...