The Pope in the Palace: The Alexander Cycle, Siena
Andrew Martindale explains why Renaissance Sienese doctored the history of a 12th-century papacy when decorating their new city hall.
Andrew Martindale explains why Renaissance Sienese doctored the history of a 12th-century papacy when decorating their new city hall.
Harry Hearder argues that language has been a help rather than a hindrance in Italy's past and present struggle to achieve political and psychological unity.
Diana Webb looks at the miracles and saints populating the basilica of the San Frediano in Lucca.
Were art and religion inevitable victims of war? David Colvin and Richard Hodges discuss the action and the issues it raised - including testimony from a surviving witness from the monastic community.
Every commune had to have one - Diana Webb explains how the cult of a holy man or woman and civic PR went hand-in-hand in medieval Italy.
Girolamo Savonarola held a puritanical sway over Florence in the last decade of the 15th century, ending 60 years of Medici domination.
A country divided, degenerate and in cultural decline? Robert Oresko examines the changing views historians are developing of Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and finds a society far more vibrant and complex than tradition suggests.
John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento.
The trade guilds of Venice, explains Richard Mackenney, were organisations with a surprising amount of political and economic power in the patrician Renaissance city.
'The Genius of Venice' at the Royal Academy, Winter 1983/4