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Showing posts with label Urbino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urbino. Show all posts
12 December 2023

Giancarlo De Carlo - architect

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Forward-thinking designer who helped shape modern Urbino De Carlo's ideas often put him at odds with more traditional urban planners The...
18 June 2023

Ottaviano dei Petrucci – music printer

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Pioneer in printing who worked for a Doge and a Pope The first page of Petrucci's volume   Harmonice Musices Odhecaton Ottaviano dei Pet...
8 December 2018

Arnaldo Forlani - politician

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Oldest surviving former prime minister Arnaldo Forlani was prime minister of Italy for just eight months Italy’s oldest surviving pr...
24 November 2018

Vittorio Miele - artist

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Painter scarred by Battle of Monte Cassino Miele's work often had strong elements of the scuola metafisica as well as impressionis...
12 September 2018

Lorenzo II de’ Medici – Duke of Urbino

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Short rule of the grandson of Lorenzo Il Magnifico Lorenzo II de' Medici ruled Florence from 1513 to 1519 but died aged only 26 ...
4 June 2018

Claudia de’ Medici – Archduchess of Tyrol

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Medici daughter who was born to rule Lorenzo Lippi's portrait of  Claudia de' Medici, painted in around 1626 Claudia de’ Med...
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...
10 August 2017

Ippolito de' Medici – Lord of Florence

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Brief life of a Cardinal, soldier and patron of the arts Ippolito de' Medici, as portrayed by Titian between 1532 and 1534, in ...
16 February 2017

Valentino Rossi - motorcycle world champion

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Rider from Urbino among his sport's all-time greats Valentino Rossi is still chasing his 10th world championship title at the age...