Medici
Restorationnews
Filippo Lippi painting—once the centrepiece of Florence's Palazzo Medici chapel—to undergo two-year restoration
The varnish layer of the work, which is held in Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, is degrading the tempera paint
Tefaf restoration award goes to 500-year-old Medici tapestry
Made in a Florentine workshop set up by Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Renaissance tapestry depicts Dante meeting Virgil in Hell
Michelangelonews
A delightful jumble of faces, limbs and torsos: inside Michelangelo's ‘secret room’
The space, which was discovered in a former coal bunker accessed via a trapdoor, features never-before-seen drawings by the Renaissance master
Booksarchive
Furniture in the Palazzo Pitti, table tops take the palm
The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut