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Showing posts with label Medici. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medici. Show all posts
29 February 2024

Alessandro Striggio - composer and diplomat

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Medici musician who invented the madrigal comedy The score of Striggio's best known work was missing for 281 years The Renaissance compo...
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...
28 January 2023

Francesco de’ Pazzi - banker

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Medici rival at heart of Pazzi Conspiracy The moment at which Giuliano de' Medici is killed, imagined by 19th century painter Stefano Us...
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...
29 May 2020

Virginia de’ Medici – noblewoman

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Duchess was driven mad by husband’s infidelity Virginia de' Medici married into the House of Este, gaining wealth and power Virg...
31 August 2019

Isabella de’ Medici – noblewoman

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Tuscan beauty killed by her husband Isabella Romola de' Medici: a portrait painted by Alessandro Allori owned by the Uffizi Gallery...
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...
29 November 2018

Agostino Chigi - banker and arts patron

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Nobleman from Siena became one of Europe’s richest men A Roman coin bearing the image of Agostino Chigi, who was one of the 16th centu...