In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Raisa Tolchinsky types poetry on demand, there’s a bluegrass ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

Cosimo de’ Medici became a patron of art, science, philosophy ... Artwork: The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli Significance: Venus is born from the sea as a fully formed woman.

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 ...

The Italian luxury house led by Silvia Venturini Fendi is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. With a history shaped ...

Pompous art historian Giorgio Vasari leads the investigation, appointed by Cosimo Medici to get to the bottom of the murder, and why Maria’s image has been used in the Venus painting. Maria herself ...

It is Primavera, or Spring in English. The term is derived from the Latin primus tempus. Spring began this year on March 20, ...

A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, ...