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But art historians know little about her beyond the writings and artworks left behind by the men who admired her E.R. Zarevich A close-up view of Leonardo da ... s de facto ruler Lorenzo de ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

A singular genius of infinite curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci left behind masterpieces ... Ghirlandaio and enjoyed early patronage from Lorenzo de' Medici before achieving fame in Rome with his ...

Lorenzo de’ Medici. But Leonardo da Vinci is less fortunate. Struggling to find sufficient commissions in Florence, he instead offers his services to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan ...

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 ...

A gentlewoman of vast culture, a sovereign of supreme political talent (she was praised by her contemporaries for her prudence, and in more the historian Bernardo Segni, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s ...