While parts of the country's heritage wound up in prestigious museums abroad, others have suffered humiliating fates at home.

Home to a priceless collection of Renaissance art and other masterpieces ... the top floor into a place "to walk in with paintings, sculptures and other precious things." Since the Uffizi opened ...

artists like Michelangelo left their Renaissance sculptures similarly unadorned,” wrote Meilan Solly for Smithsonian magazine in 2022. The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted ...

Wallace, an author or editor of eight books about the Renaissance artist, viewed the statue on a Jenrette-led tour in 2015 with a group of conservationists. He told Insider the sculpture was ...

Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of Renaissance artwork and remains a well-known symbol of Italy. More than 1.4 million people visit the sculpture annually at Florence's ...