Four hundred years ago Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, desired silversmiths to make him a globe on which should be represented, “with exactitude,” the constellations of the stars. Silversmiths ...

When word flashed around the globe that a car bomb had exploded outside Florence's Uffizi Gallery in May 1993, the world's art community let out a collective gasp. Home to a priceless collection ...