Step back in time to Florence, 1475. At the height of Medici power, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici rule the city as patrons of art, intellect, and political strategy. But behind the grandeur of ...

In the art world, it has always been about who you know, not what you know. And who Michelangelo knew almost cost him his life. The banishment didn’t last for long, and they were reinstated in 1530.

Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with ...