The attempted coup successfully murdered Guiliano, stabbing him 19 times, but failed to kill Lorenzo, who was able to barricade himself in the rear of the cathedral safely behind sacristy doors. The ...

He sought to consolidate power by seizing the Duchy of Urbino for his nephew, Lorenzo de’ Medici, engaging in an ... to an excommunication of the ruling duke and the imposition of heavy taxation ...

However, on February 28, 1537, the assassination of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici—a brutal ruler—by his cousin Lorenzo de’ Medici changed everything. Cosimo was elected leader of Florence at just 18, ...

Eleven years before his death, Pontormo had been tasked with decorating the Basilica of San Lorenzo with frescoes ... He is also Duke Cosimo de’ Medici’s right-hand man in matters of art.

Raphael’s most expensive painting, Portrait of Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino (1518) sold at Christie’s London in 2007 for £18.5 million ($37.3 million). But that work represented ...

Italy’s most celebrated art gallery is housed in what was originally built as the Medici Whitehall ... s twin portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, and Michelangelo’s Tondo Doni.

Adding more historical facts and complementing them to those explained in the series: Catherine was born in Florence to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne. In 1533 ...

Daughter of Lorenzo II de’ Medici (1492–1519), Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la Tour d’Auvergne (1495–1519), Catherine de’ Medici grew up in Italy, her father’s homeland. At the death of her ...

Italian paleopathologist Valentina Giuffra has been studying the skeletons of nine children born to the Medici family in Florence during the Renaissance. She tells anchor Marco Werman that their bones ...

in the Portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino, now in a private collection. Lorenzo was born in Florence in 1492, the son of Alfonsina Orsini and Piero il Fatuo, eldest son of Lorenzo the ...