Portrait paintings are sometimes described as windows into the soul. The Renaissance likenesses presented in the Metropolitan Museum’s “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570” have other ...

On April 26, 1478, the Pazzi plot exploded inside Florence’s cathedral during High Mass. Assassins waited for the communion signal before attacking Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici. Giuliano was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When Cosimo I de’ Medici became the second duke of Florence, ...

Royal intrigue, betrayal and power struggles lie at the heart of The Serpent Queen, the historical drama launched in 2022.

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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 dynast ...