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Throughout the Renaissance, Florence Italy was famous for its  artistic output. Names like Donatello, Michelangelo and Giambologna graced ...

Antique Apothecary jars, cobalt blue glass. As best as I can remember, the first time that I really noticed glass was at four or f...

Possible portrait of Lodovico Domenichi, British Museum, inventory #1867,1012.650 In honor of National Poetry Month in the US, here...

"Merry Company," (1623) Gerard van Honthorst The first decade of the seventeenth century was a golden era for glass in T...

Nef Ewer, Late 16th century, Murano Italy. Courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum On the afternoon of Friday, 22 March 1521, The Venetian Sen...

Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, walking on palm leaves.  Pietro Lorenzetti  1320 For Western Christians, this week began with "P...

Agnolo di Cosimo 'Bronzino', "Portrait of Florentine Noblewoman" (subject unknown , circa. 1540). The mother of...