“Portraits and Politics” is split into six thematic sections that follow the Medici from the early 16th century, when the family was newly returned from exile and struggling to maintain ...

And among its largely 18th- and 19th-century Italian treasures were a pair of giltwood-framed portraits of members of the Medici family, dated July 1814 and June 1815 and unlike any I had ever seen.

The family returned to power with the ascension of Alessandro de’ Medici, who in 1532, became the first hereditary Duke of Florence. In “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” a ...

He had been researching the African presence in the Medici family since his youth in Belize because of his own mulatto ancestry. The child resembled both a portrait of Duke Alessandro and one of ...

LONDON — A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie's said Monday.

That distinction likely belongs to a retouched likeness from a century earlier: the portrait of a tragic member of the powerful Medici family, Isabella de' Medici (daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici ...

The famous and powerful family that once controlled Florence provides the big name in “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” a large exhibition about to open at the Metropolitan ...

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Shortly after Salviati painted his portrait, however, Bindo assumed a publicly anti-Medici stance and in 1554, the family declared him a rebel. Salviati’s depiction of Bindo is The Met’s only ...