Most famous as the hometown of Shakespeare’s tragic couple Romeo and Juliet, Verona isn’t typically one of the first cities ...

The best hotels in Florence make it easy to take in historic architecture, museums and galleries. Here's where to stay in ...

the museum did not haul the 17-foot-tall David from the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, or the unfinished figure called “The Genius of Victory” that sits nearby in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Most of the sculptures of Renaissance master Michelangelo can't travel for shows, so the Madrid-based studio Factum Arte made meticulous 3D-printed and cast reproductions for a new exhibition ...

Morris says the song is about when she left London and moved to Florence. “There’s a piazza, Piazza della Signoria, not far from where I used to live, where the Palazzo Vecchio is,” she says.

especially those of the Loggia della Signoria, where Cellini’s Perseus is the star turn. If time allows, admire the astonishing interior of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence’s town hall for some ...

There were many such families in Florence. In 1498, at the age of 29 ... toiling in a small office at the Palazzo della Signoria! He saw Italy foundering and wished to save her. He thought he knew how ...

Site of the first major Italian fashion show in 1951, Palazzo Pitti’s White Room was designed by the ... entirely frescoed on the occasion of the wedding of Duke Ferdinand II and Vittoria della Rovere ...

Loggia dei Lanzi, in the Piazza della Signoria, is an open-air (and free) museum that was designed in the 14th century by Orcagna, an influential architect and artist. Below the building's curved ...

The work on the Santa Trinita Altarpiece (Deposition from the Cross) (1429-32) was completed ahead of a major exhibition on the Italian painter, due to open at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi in ...