A secretive Renaissance-era passageway in Florence connecting the Uffizi Galleries to the Palazzo Pitti, the Medicis’ former residence, has opened to the public for the first time in its nearly ...

Faith Connexion, the haute punk Parisian line that has always operated as an anonymous collective (though it was tacitly understood that Christophe Decarnin was in residence), has just named its first ...

The vandals have sacked Italy again this year. Two German tourists spray painted slogans for a Munich soccer team onto the side of a 460-year-old landmark in Florence cops said — in the latest ...

For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1601): It’s not often I come across Renaissance art on a trek through Chelsea galleries. On a recent reconnoiter, however, I discovered this 16 th-century painting, attributed to a ...

Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists, first published in Florence in 1550, is quite simply the most entertaining and enduring book ever written about art. It's stuffed with great stories about ...

The best-known secret in Florence is known of by many, but visited by almost none, and its story runs through the heart of Florentine history, literally and figuratively. Every tourist in Florence ...

There can be few more flagrant instances of the law of unintended consequences than the way in which Vasari’s Lives of the Artists have all but fatally overshadowed his own artistic career. For while ...

The character and Training of an Architect and a Courtier -- Papal Favor: Del Monte Projects in Monte San Savino and Rome -- Legitimacy: The Uffizi -- Ceremonial and Refuge: The Renovation of the ...