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The Master Who Lived In Medici Palace, Taught Michelangelo, And Finished Donatello’s Work, Rises After More Than Five Centuries
Lorenzo de' Medici, the unofficial ruler of the ... for the court of his Palazzo Medici. The statue is now in the Bargello. Bertoldo inherited Donatello’s models and, upon his master’s death ...
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Conservators Cleaning Michelangelo’s Famed Medici Family Chapel Had an Unlikely Ally: Bacteria
The tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, 1524–34, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, at the New Sacristy, Medici Chapels, Basilica of Saint Lawrence, in Florence, Italy, 2017. Courtesy of Getty ...
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Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel Sculptures Were Cleaned with Bacteria During COVID-19
The tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino, in the Medici Chapels. DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI / Contributor / Getty Images Additionally, the restoration team had to choose between several different ...
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An Italian museum is using flesh-eating bacteria to clean Michelangelo's statues — because they're full of corpses
Nearly 500 years ago, Duke Alessandro de Medici was lured with the promise ... The ones that worked were then put on the tomb of Giuliano di Lorenzo, specifically the statues of Night and Day.