Greg Jenner is joined in 16th-Century France by Dr Estelle Paranque and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi to learn all about controversial queen Catherine de’ Medici. Show more Greg Jenner is joined ...

While Cosimo de’ Medici had supported this work when doing so was more politically expedient, he also itched to be crowned king of Tuscany — a title conferred by the pope — and was willing ...

Cosimo de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence, assigns his trusted adviser Vasari to get to the bottom of the case. As the investigation unfolds, so too does the variegated tapestry that is 1550s ...

In so doing, he nurtured their development and became a constructive patron: a Cosimo de’ Medici of the aerosol set. His collection is highlighted in “Above Ground,” a small but essential ...

Photograph by PAOLO GALLO/AGE FOTOSTOCK Cosimo de’Medici came to power in 1434 and immediately set about an extensive building program, including finishing Filippo Brunelleschi’s gravity ...

Harshbarger, the park’s manager, moved a few tortoises toward dry land. But as the first person to return to Fort De Soto after the storm, his to-do list was growing. He made a mental note to ...

He is also Duke Cosimo de’ Medici’s right-hand man in matters of art. Why not also a detective. What could be the murderer’s motive? Artists famously hate having their unfinished work seen.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for ...

but the real feat here is the portrait medallion—a three-dimensional pastiglia that imitates an actual medal of banker and patron of the arts Cosimo de’ Medici Botticelli included no fewer ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine ...