"In the past half century, scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492) as a patron of the arts. Less wealthy than his grandfather Cosimo, the argument goes, Lorenzo was ...
Although a well-mined biography topic, the Medici dynasty continues to fascinate, and critic Unger (The Watercolors of Winslow Homer) offers a smart, highly readable and abundantly researched book, ...
After more than eight years of work, conservators presented the newly restored tombs in Florence this week. The tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, 1524–34, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, at the ...
Portrait paintings are sometimes described as windows into the soul. The Renaissance likenesses presented in the Metropolitan Museum’s “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570” have other ...
The sweep of Italian history and art history in dazzling portraits from the dynasty’s final hurrah, on view in a sumptuous exhibition at the Met. By Roberta Smith It’s hard to imagine Florence, cradle ...
When Cosimo il Vecchio was a young man, he was given a slave girl. Despite his marriage he continued to live with her, away from his family. Their bastard son, Carlo, sought his fortune in Spain and ...
Bertoldo di Giovanni and collaborators Frieze for the Portico of the Medici Villa at Poggio a Caiano (detail), ca. 1490 Glazed terracotta 22 7/8 x 571 1/4 inches Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Polo ...
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