The Medici’s lost garden of wonders

Recreating Donatello’s sculpture

Deconstructing the Colosseum

Great art explained: Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne

De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis

Virtual ancient Rome: walking from the Colosseum to the Forum

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The rise and fall of Pratolino: Tuscany’s ‘proto-theme park’

The video essay from the YouTube channel Kings and Things takes viewers through the once-extraordinary grounds, as well as the fascinating history, of the Villa di Pratolino in Tuscany. Built in the late 16th century amid the Medici dynasty’s rule of Florence, this estate was deeply........

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