After a difficult few decades, visitors are returning to the North African nation in their droves – and it’s easier than ever ...

and enter the Medici Chapels to explore the pinnacle of the Medicis' art patronage and view the work of Michelangelo in the family’s chapel he designed, featuring the tombs of Lorenzo il Magnifico and ...

The tomb of Pope Leo XI, St Peter’s Basilica (1644) Alessandro di Ottaviano de’ Medici, a member of a junior branch of the great Florentine dynasty (he was a second cousin of Cosimo de ...

The basilica also houses the tombs of Honorius III ... In addition, five popes, including two Medici pontiffs, Leo X and Clement VII, are buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

(ANSA) - Florence, November 19 - Researchers pried open the tomb of Giovanni de' Medici and his wife on Monday in their quest to better understand the life and death of the 16th-century warrior.

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The triple wreaths refer to similarly imagery in the tomb’s iconography ... founded by Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1563. The monument was designed by artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari ...

He designed and carved tombs for the family and also he designed the Medici Chapel 1524 Commissioned to design the Laurentian Library at San Lorenzo 1532 Visited Rome, met Tommaso de'Cavalieri ...

Marble figure at the tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence by... Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici in S. Lorenzo in Florence by Michelangelo Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici in S. Lorenzo in Florence by ...

Over the next centuries, the family’s influence would extend beyond banking to the papacy, royalty, and aristocracy: The Medici Chapel is part of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. It houses the ...

39.9 x 18.8 cm. (15.7 x 7.4 in.) ...

Catherine de’ Medici was not necessarily destined for a position of great ... and which has characterised her variously as the ‘Serpent of Paris’ and ‘the maggot from Italy’s tomb’. As this final ...