He becomes the spiritual leader of ... Two other Leos—Popes Leo X and XI—were members of the great Medici clan of art patrons. Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, Pope Leo X, a son of Lorenzo ...

Founded in 1973, Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici (LdM) is one of Italy's most established international higher education institutions, with its main campus in the historical center of Florence, and sister ...

Instead, like many younger sons of noble families, he was set on a religious career. At just 14 years old, in 1562, he was appointed cardinal in Rome, where he acquired a palace to house his art ...

“He lived ... arts Cosimo de’ Medici Botticelli included no fewer than 138 accurately depicted plant species in this lush springtime scene, one of the artist’s best-known paintings despite ...

In Florence, Milan, Rome and finally France, he pours the sum of his scientific and artistic knowledge into a portrait that would become the most famous painting ... of Lorenzo de' Medici before ...

Lewis’s novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Pevensie children are astonished by how real a painting of a ship ... the Florentine statesman Lorenzo de’ Medici, “it would be hard to ...

He and Dati had conversed ... the most discriminating readers. Lorenzo de’ Medici, while relaxing at the baths, had his secretary write to the printer who was producing the posthumous first edition of ...

The book was addressed to Lorenzo de’ Medici Jr ... (in May 1519). He did so in the first place as a man of letters by staging in Florence and Rome his blasphemous play The Mandrake (1520), and then ...

‘Sandro drew exceedingly ... especially those to which he devoted both diligence and love.’ Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1568) Giorgio Vasari, ...

Why did he make ... create these paintings. In 2004, almost six decades after they were made, the paintings were restored by Lorenzo Casamenti, a conservator at the Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute ...

Yashiro’s observations on Botticelli’s line are simply poetic and his selection of photographs—with incredibly defined detail shots of Botticelli’s paintings ... he drew on parchment for ...