Now, in Florence’s hour of peril, it was high time that an equally, if not more, dazzling pair should be cast for the north ...

A bronze copy of the Medici Venus has been removed ... where it was displayed as part of the public art-historical heritage. Venus de Medici kept in the Uffizi. With the recent decision, the statue ...

As portrayed by Leonardo, Ginevra boasts smooth bronze curls ... Florence’s de facto ruler Lorenzo de’ Medici, the writer and diplomat Alessandro Braccesi, and the poet and critic Cristoforo ...

Credit: The Met / Public Domain Venus de’ Medici is one of the more recent examples among the most famous statues of Aphrodite. It was created in the first century BC and is thought to be a marble ...

He designed a monumental equestrian statue in bronze and in 1497 completed ... who participated in a 1478 assassination attempt on Lorenzo de’Medici. Toward the end of this period in Florence ...

They're also both clean-shaven, deviating from traditional depictions of Jesus with a beard, which thought to be inspired by an ancient Greek statue ... patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.

Statues by Donatello, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari dot the exterior, and the interior is equally incredible. Inside, you’ll see the private studio of Francesco I de' Medici and the largest ...

Botticelli might have been inspired Venus de’ Medici, a marble sculpture ... between the Birth of Venus and Lorenzo Ghiberti’s 14th-century bronze depiction of the baptism of Christ, which ...

Soon his interests expanded to encompass the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ... his works engaged the most discriminating readers. Lorenzo de’ Medici, while relaxing at the baths, had ...

Meanwhile outside, Central Park featured statues of 15th-century brothers and Florence co-rulers Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici ... three see-through sides and bronze trim. Billed as “the ...

Located beneath the Medici Chapels at the Basilica di San Lorenzo, which house ... believed to have been a model for a statue adorning the Tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici, the Duke of Nebours ...

He was at an impasse with a sculpture ... The Medici tombs seem to have made the strongest impression, for they alone are singled out. “Everything that I have seen of photographs or plasters gives no ...