patronage
October 12, 2020
Today is Columbus Day, a national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492.
July 30, 2018
Giambologna and the Tuscan Villa of Il Riposo
November 24, 2017
Alfonso II d’Este was Born on 24 November 1533.
September 1, 2017
Scipione Borghese was born in Rome on 1 September 1576.
August 4, 2017
Lucrezia di Lorenzo de’ Medici was born on 4 August 1470 to Clarice Orsini and Lorenzo il Magnifico .
January 28, 2017
Giulio Rospigliosi, who eventually became Pope Clement IX (r. 1667-9), was born on 28 January 1600 in Pistoia.
December 31, 2016
Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was born on 1 January 1449 in Florence.
October 10, 2016
The Magi and their Florentine connections
