Unknown Florentine of the end of the 15th century/The Torture of Savonarola in the Piazza della Signoria/Painted on wood. This is the cell of Girolamo Savonarola, Prior of San Marco. He warned ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th ... Santo Spirito, San Miniato, ...

The altarpiece, now back on display in Florence’s Museo di San Marco, was originally commissioned ... of Christian humanism of the early 15th century”—which emphasised Jesus’s connection ...

Vital new information arose during scientific investigations and the restoration process of the 15th century frescoes ... the Museum of San Marco, and dozens of other museums, churches, and ...

Five million manuscript books were produced in 15th-century Europe ... printing press at the convent of San Jacopo di Ripoli in the western outskirts of Florence, where nuns, many of whom were ...

Only a century later was his genius recognised with a proper monument. Less well known is the fact that Florence was the scene, in 1439, of a truly disastrous attempt to reunite Europe as a ...