Italy is one of the art primary lands of the world. This is the base of the Renaissance and the world famous great man like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. During your holiday in Italy you will discovery that art here has noticeable ties to religion. Diverse of the excellent artists also painted numerous religious subject matters and were much commissioned by the Church to paint murals. (more…)

Florence has a number of celebrated monuments marking the various phases of Florence’s artistic history: the Baptistery with its mosaics; the Cathedral, a majestic example of Gothic architecture topped by Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture; medieval churches decorated with fresco cycles; public and private palaces like Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi and Palazzo Davanzati, built by leading architects on behalf of the city’s most eminent families. (more…)