Secret 16th century passageway built for the ruling family of Florence, Italy opens to the ...
A 16th-century secret passageway built for the ruling family of Florence, Italy, has opened to the public for the first time ...
PBS6 年
The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
Borgia Their name has become a byword for murder and incest, making the Borgia the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope ...
PBS2 年
The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
Borgia Their name has become a byword for murder and incest, making the Borgia the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope ...
来自MSN6 天
Secret passage that Florence's Medici used to move safely reopens to public after 8-year ...
For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway ...
Cambridge University Press2 个月
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy
Business History, Vol. 66, Issue. 3, p. 709. Following the life of one man, Piero de' Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent's son, Alison Brown sheds new light on several of the most important themes of ...
Artnet5 天
A Secret Corridor Once Used by the Medicis Opens to the Public
The Vasari Corridor was commissioned by Cosimo de Medici as part of the celebrations for the marriage between his son and ...
BBC7 个月
The Medici
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's political and cultural life during the Renaissance. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family ...
PBS8 个月
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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, “The ...
National Geographic news7 年
How Table Manners as We Know Them Were a Renaissance Invention
During the Renaissance, this ancient practice began ... When Catherine de’ Medici arrived in France in 1533, she attempted to popularize fork usage. While Catherine did much to Italianize ...
The Week8 天
Renaissance rivalry: The Three Titans of Firenze and the Warrior Popes
At the heart of the Florentine resurgence were three titans of art: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raphael ...
Moviefone3 年
The Medici Godfathers of the Renaissance (2004) Cast and Crew
‘The Brutalist’ Finds Director Brady Corbet in Epic Yet Overlong Mode. The young director’s latest... ‘Mufasa: The Lion King Suffers a Serious Case of Prequelitis as it Turns Back the ...
Sky2 年
Botticelli, Florence and the Medici
...Medici. This documentary explores Sandro Botticelli and his innate ability to transfer the lights and shadows of the Renaissance Florence Medici era into his works ...