The Royal Academy’s exhibition on Florence does exactly that, exploring the city through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance ...
(The same jostling triumvirate will also be the subject of Renaissance ... The exhibition examines a famous episode in Western art, when Leonardo and Michelangelo found themselves in direct ...
Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from the nude female model. A couple of head studies by Federico Barocci are drop-dead gorgeous. A few ...