Lust, murder, intrigue, money, beauty and clever ruses sound like the ingredients of a classic adventure novel, but here Unger puts them together to construct a historical biography of Lorenzo de’ ...

Lorenzo Medici: his very name has become synonomous with high-grade patronage of the arts and as ruler of Florence in the late 15th century, he made the city the most sumptuously beautiful state in ...

"In the past half century, scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492) as a patron of the arts. Less wealthy than his grandfather Cosimo, the argument goes, Lorenzo was ...

The subject of my lecture is the phenomenon of masking in the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici. I begin with an overview of the evidence in favor of the early claims that Lorenzo himself invented the ...

Although a well-mined biography topic, the Medici dynasty continues to fascinate, and critic Unger (The Watercolors of Winslow Homer) offers a smart, highly readable and abundantly researched book, ...

LONDON — A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie's said Monday. Christie's ...

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House of Medici descendant Prince Lorenzo de’ Medici is launching a new digital bank, Medici Bank, CryptoNinjas reports. de’ Medici founded the new Bank with former Fidor Managing Director of Americas ...