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Showing posts with label Cosimo I. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Cosimo I. Show all posts

24 September 2023

Vincenzo da Filicaja – poet

Patriotic writer was inspired by victory against the Turks Da Filicaja earned comparisons with the great poet Petrarch Vincenzo da Filicaja,...

11 July 2017

Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo

The shocking fate of a Spanish noblewoman Leonora, as depicted by the 16th century portrait painter Alessandro Allori The beautif...

5 April 2017

Giovanni dalle Bande Nere - condottiero

Medici soldier who fathered Cosimo I de' Medici Giovanni dalle Bande Nere: a portrait by an unknown artist Giovanni dalle Band...

25 March 2017

Francesco I - Grand Duke of Tuscany

Florentine ruler at heart of Medici murder mystery A portrait of Francesco I by Agnolo di Cosimo, the Florentine artist better known a...

21 April 2016

Cosimo I de' Medici

The grand designs of a powerful archduke This 1545 portrait of Cosimo I by Agnolo Bronzino is owned by the Art Gallery of New Sout...

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