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Vasari Corridor 'populated' with Roman busts
The Vasari Corridor, the famed covered and elevated passage designed by Giorgio Vasari and linking Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo ...
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Art, Power and Glory in Florence - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
Benvenuto Cellini’s bust of Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, 1546-47. Photo: By permission of the Ministry of Culture, Photo: Antonio Quattrone ...
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Bowers’ ‘Gems of the Medici’ a precious opportunity
The Medici family of Florence, Italy, was one of those families. The Medicis were a key merchant and banking family from the 14th through 17th centuries. Four popes and two queens came from the ...
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For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show - The New York Times
In “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” a sumptuous, vigorous exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we join the family in its final hurrah of civic brilliance. Most of the ...
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Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . Medici . Other Families - PBS
His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici, in 1476. Cesare was made a cardinal in 1493 and his presence in Rome under the rule of his father made the city off-limits ...
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Art, Power and Glory in Florence - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
A bronze bust of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici reigns over the first part of “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” a new exhibition opening June 26 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum ...