Across history, the goddess Aphrodite has remained a prominent figure of beauty and love, and many statues have been built in ...

Famous globally, the Uffizi Gallery boasts a rich repository of Italian Renaissance art. The grandiose Florentine building ...

Whether it’s the natural world, imagined worlds of an alternate reality, or the world of deadly Renaissance art; there’s much ...

tichr/Shutterstock The Uffizi sits in the historic heart of Florence and houses some of the most famous works of art from the Renaissance. Here you’ll find The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli ...

When Mulready began his formal training at the Royal Academy Schools, students began by drawing casts of Greek and Roman sculpture. The Venus de' Medici was one of the most celebrated Classical ...

Cosimo’s eldest daughter, Maria de’ Medici, describes it in a letter to her ‘aunt’ Catherine, whom she mistakenly imagines wishing her well: ‘Venus (supposedly the ... Where could art go after that?

Renowned for presenting 7,000 years of art history under one roof ... were so revered that Catherine de’ Medici commissioned him to build a private grotto at the Tuileries Palace.

it still displays the family's prominent art collection, which includes such masterpieces as Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," Raphael's "Madonna of the Goldfinch" and Titian's "Venus of Urbino." ...