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 ...

A work of political advice dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino, it is almost more of a pamphlet than a book, really. I reencountered it a few years later in 2012 in conversation with ...

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 ...

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 ...