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 ...
An installation view of “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through Oct. 11. (Hyla Skopitz/The Met) Analysis by Philip Kennicott “The Medici: ...
With brief exceptions, the Medici ruled Florence from the mid-15th until the mid-18th century, rising from the lowly rank of traders in textiles to become bankers, warlords and grand dukes. When one ...
Before I even step onto the Met’s grand staircase in its mini-palazzo, the online exhibition text tells me: “Some of the greatest portraits of Western art were painted in Florence during the ...
She looks like an ordinary little girl, holding the hand of an ordinary woman. But the 16th-century painting of young Giulia de' Medici with her aunt on display at the National Gallery of Art, is now ...
The National Gallery used to have several remedies for new acquisitions that might prove morally controversial. One solution was to send pictures immediately on loan to Edinburgh, as the Scots were ...
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