ROME: Heavy rain swelled rivers and flooded streets in an area near Florence on Friday, with authorities issuing ...

An acrylic painting of a renaissance man in red robes against a black and white Fleur de lis background. It was his last painting before he died.

Heavy rain swelled rivers and flooded streets in an area near Florence on Friday, with authorities issuing a red weather ...

Spanning 28 rooms and three floors, the massive Museo dell'Opera del Duomo houses more than 750 works of art covering nearly ... the historical context of the cathedral and surrounding monuments.

Like a presiding spirit, the cathedral—duomo in Italian—keeps watch over the streetscapes of Florence, including this block of Via dei Servi, a few hundred yards northeast of the church.

Inextricably intertwined with the history of the Medici (the most powerful family in Tuscany), Florence embodies the quintessence of the arts ... Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, in Piazza del ...