The portrait up for sale is of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence from 1513 to 1519. It shows Medici turning slightly left against a rich forest green background. The duke is ...

Image Two Medici portraits by Raphael are included in the show, including this one, of Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici.Credit ... works with an erudite and self-consciously stylish character ...

The sweep of Italian history and art history in dazzling portraits from the dynasty ... most importantly Leo X — born Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici — who became Bishop of Rome in 1513 ...

Raphael, “Lorenzo de’Medici, Duke of Urbino” (1518 ... I can see the same three-quarter turn, and self-assured regard in the image of “Portrait of a Woman with a Lapdog” (1532–33 ...

Bronzino’s portraits offer a similar treatment of Cosimo’s family. His impressive wife Eleonora di Toledo was a granddaughter of Lorenzo de Medici and served as his frequent political advisor ...

It vies for attention in a room of exceptional portraits, including one of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino (c. 1518), and of humanist Baldassare Castiglione (c. 1519).

Lust, murder, intrigue, money, beauty and clever ruses sound like the ingredients of a classic adventure novel, but here Unger puts them together to construct a historical biography of Lorenzo de ...

44.1 x 36.1 cm. (17.4 x 14.2 in.) ...

On April 8, 1492, the de facto ruler of Florence, Lorenzo ... of robust glory. De Medici alone is a fascinating and complicated figure, and Strathern draws a finely shaded portrait of a man ...

Born in 1519 and 1545, respectively, the women were descendants of Lorenzo I de’ Medici, the Florentine ... In The Marriage Portrait, Lucrezia’s looming murder is invoked on the first page ...