Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, Pope Leo X, a son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was the subject of one of the most intimate and unexpected of papal portraits, Raphael's Portrait of Pope Leo X and ...

Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is one of the most famous sculptures in the history of art. Endlessly reproduced and ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings and artworks left behind by the men who admired her ...

He took the name Urban VII. In 1513, Cardinal Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici became the last non-priest to be elected pope. At the time, it was not uncommon for a layman to be a cardinal.

Pope Leo X (born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici) held the papal see from 1475 to 1521 A.D. During the last year of his pontificate, Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther. Pope Leo X—whose ...

and a scholar of international studies at the Italian International Institute Lorenzo de’ Medici. GT: The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. China is promoting ...

Leo X, the son of ruler of the Florentine Republic, Lorenzo de' Medici, was one of the leading popes of the Renaissance, and reigned from 1513 until his death in 1521. He made Rome a cultural ...

The Past and the Present It was a warm sunny day in Paris in early April and Chase-Riboud was in her 6th arrondissement apartment overlooking the Jardin du Luxembourg with a magnificent view of ...

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As Florence has been prospering for a while thanks to the magnificent's ... of the pious papacy, when Lorenzo eventually obtains for what he has thrived so far. After discovering a past mistake made ...