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Showing posts with label Cosimo de' Medici. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cosimo de' Medici. Show all posts
5 April 2024

Francesco Laparelli - architect and military engineer

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Italian who designed Valletta, the fortified capital of Malta Francesco Laparelli found himself in demand as a military architect The archit...
7 October 2023

Michelozzo - architect and sculptor

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Designs became a template for Renaissance palaces A detail from a Fra Angelico painting is taken to be a depiction of Michelozzo  The influe...
27 September 2020

Cosimo de’ Medici – banker and politician

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Father of Florence used his wealth to encourage great architecture Bronzino's portrait of Cosimo de' Medici, painted between 1565 an...
7 February 2019

Vittoria delle Rovere – Grand Duchess of Tuscany

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Bride who brought the treasures of Urbino to Florence Vittoria della Rovere, a portrait by the Flemish painter Justus Sustermans, circ...
22 June 2018

Lucrezia Tornabuoni - political adviser

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Medici wife one of most powerful women of the Renaissance Domenico Ghirlandaio's portrait of Lucrezia Tornabuoni, painted in aroun...
23 March 2018

Lorenzino de’ Medici - assassin

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Mystery over motive for killing cousin Alphonse Mucha's 1896 lithograph of Lorenzino Lorenzino de’ Medici, who became famous fo...
13 February 2018

Benvenuto Cellini – sculptor and goldsmith

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Creator of the famous Perseus bronze had a dark history Cellini's bronze of Perseus with the Head of Medusa in Piazza della Sign...
17 November 2017

Bronzino – master of Mannerism

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Florentine became Medici court painter Bronzino's portrait of Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, with her son...
1 August 2016

Cosimo de' Medici

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Banker who founded the Medici dynasty This portrait of Cosimo by Jacopo da Contormo  can be viewed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence ...