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Factinate on MSNLong before he became the greatest artist of the Renaissance, Michelangelo committed an art fraud that fooled a wealthy buyer.Art fraud was a common occurrence in the Italian Renaissance. Even a young Michelangelo took part in such a scheme, long ...
Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...
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 ...
Photograph by PAOLO GALLO/AGE FOTOSTOCK Cosimo de’Medici came to power in 1434 and ... including Andrea del Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci’s teacher, whose influence introduced a sculptural ...
The most famous pupil of Argyropoulos was the famed polymath Leonardo da Vinci. He also taught the influential Florentine statesmen and bankers Pietro de’ Medici and Lorenzo de’ Medici; the Italian ...
Cosimo de’ Medici, known as Cosimo the Elder ... Laurent spent a significant portion of the Medici family fortune to support promising artists, including Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and ...
It is said that in ancient times, a giant armed with six iron balls whirling at the ends of chains terrorized Tuscany. A brave knight named Averardo di Medici, accompanying Charlemagne on his journey ...
Arguably, the only names that can come close are those of his rivals, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael ... to attend an academy run by the city’s ruling Medici family. A prominent member was Lorenzo de' ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari commission ... master Ghirlandaio and had enjoyed the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici before moving to Rome, where he'd sculpted a breathtaking marble ...
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