Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When Cosimo I de’ Medici became the second duke of Florence, ...
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 ...
A new exhibition at the Met reveals how the Florentine banking dynasty drew on art to cement its power and legacy Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History When Cosimo I de’ Medici, a 17 ...