The Passion of Jesus ranks among the most common themes in Western art, painted or sculpted by artists too numerous to count, with many striving to create artworks both emotionally stirring and ...

An investigation finds the ‘Spirituali Pietà,’ attributed to an anonymous artist, is actually by the Renaissance master which, if true, boosts to five the number of Michelangelo works on canvas ...

Contemporary and modern art engage in harmonious dialogue in the latest project by the Guerrilla Spam collective, which was founded in November 2010 in Florence as a spontaneous, unauthorized urban ...

For pure escapism, there’s nothing quite like historical fiction. These vividly imagined novels transport you back to another time and place, from a sweeping love story against the backdrop of the ...

Due in large part to the boost his ­reputation received from influential art historian Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo is one of the best-known figures of Western civilisation. Vasari, a friend to ...

The monumental frescoes in the choir of San Lorenzo in Florence, commissioned in 1546 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, were supposed to be the painter Jacopo da Pontormo’s artistic legacy.

It is 1765, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 9, has some thoughts about the musical deficiencies of his teacher, Johann Christian Bach, a perfectly competent composer and performer who has the mixed ...

The Seattle University Museum of Art will be located on a prominent corder site near the campus’s main entrance. (Courtesy Seattle University) To make way for the Seattle Museum of Art, a beloved ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Laurent Binet’s new novel, Perspectives, written in letters, is set in 16th-century Florence, a city awash with ...

Contemporary and modern art engage in harmonious dialogue in the latest project by the Guerrilla Spam collective, which was founded in November 2010 in Florence as a spontaneous, unauthorized urban ...

If you ever watched The Sopranos, in which a member of the New Jersey mafia agrees to see a therapist, you may have noticed the classical painting hanging behind the king-sized bed of Tony and Carmela ...

The Lombardi-Tiezzi Company, with the collaboration of the Community of San Leolino, will present Mario Luzi’s “Pontormo Felicità Turbate” by Mario Luzi on June 6, 2024. The showcase was created with ...