During this Florence Medici tour, led by an art or social historian, we'll follow along in the footsteps of the Medicis, visiting several key sites that the family has owned or sponsored, tracing ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and ...
A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly. Rise of Cosimo, ...
Vasari recorded the lives of artists and the contribution of the Medici, in a precursor of today's PR. Machiavelli, the Godfather of Realpolitik, wrote the first modern manual for leadership ...
In 1507 his friend, Agnolo Doni, ordered a beautiful portrait of the Holy Family. Michelangelo used ... Michelangelo was no longer a friend to this Medici Pope. In 1530 the artist had cowered ...