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- Giuliano de’ Medici: More Famous in Death Than in Life
- Sandro Botticelli: Creative License
- Love and War
- Pazzi: Ultimate Villains
- Medici Women: Present and Absent
- Untangling The Papacy
- The Pazzi Conspiracy
Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, 1435 – 1488 ), Giuliano de’ Medici, c. 1475/1478, terracotta, Andrew W. Mellon Collection Giuliano de’ Medici, Lorenzo’s younger brother, is remembered more for the circumstances of his death than those of his life. He is presented as stubborn and quick to ignite into rage. While this is fictional, it sets Lorenzo ap...
Botticelli’s “Madonna of the Magnificat” shows Lucrezia de’ Medici as the Madonna surrounded by her children, with Lorenzo holding a pot of ink Much liberty is also taken with Sandro Botticelli. A dominant presence as Lorenzo’s most loyal friend and companion, their client-patron relationship proved mutually respectful and beneficial, but placing B...
Love and war reign supreme this season. Gian Galeazzo Sforza is framed as a general who is so power hungry that he comes across as barbarous. The Sforza, whose family crest is dominated by serpents, are almost as slippery as the Pazzi. Milan looks ominous and inhospitable and we are presented with a Sforza duke actually eating gold. A general for h...
Bronze medal by Bertoldo di Giovanni (1478), with a portrait of Lorenzo and a depiction of the assassination attempt in the Duomo The Pazzi are the ultimate villains in this narrative, occupying murky medieval spaces that highlight the traditional mentality that the aristocracy should rule. Lorenzo faces countless threats from abroad, but none prov...
Clarice Orsini de’ Medici, Domenico Ghirlandaio, National Gallery of Ireland “Medici: The Magnificent” shows Lorenzo and Giuliano’s as only having one sister, Bianca—they had three. While his other siblings remained uncast, his mother Lucrezia features heavily, as the woman who impacted Lorenzo’s decisions most deeply. Did she sit in the Priori’s a...
Another challenge is untangling the papal entanglements needed to explain why Pope Sixtus IV supported the Pazzi. The historical papacy is endlessly pulled between the secular and sacred sphere. Sixtus might be the vicar of Christ, but he has bank accounts in Florence and worries that the Medici might align with Milan and Venice to starve the papac...
The plot against the Medici was long in coming, but the event itself was explosive. The only reason it hasn’t entered into our popular imagination, like the Ides of March, is that Lorenzo survived. In a Caesar-like presentation of events, Francesco Pazzi is manufactured as a Brutus, a friend that Lorenzo mistakenly trusted, while the blond Giuliano...
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Gian Galeazzo Sforza (20 June 1469 – 21 October 1494), also known as Giovan Galeazzo Sforza, was the sixth Duke of Milan. Early life [ edit ] Born in Abbiategrasso , he was only seven years old when in 1476 his father, Galeazzo Maria Sforza , was assassinated and he became the Duke of Milan .
Jun 20, 2021 · young to inherit his father's title. Gian Galeazzo Sforza, the third member of the Sforza family to have the title Duke of Milan, was born on this day in 1469 in Abbiategrasso, a town in the Po Valley about 22km (14 miles) north of Milan. He was the sixth Duke of Milan in all, the title having previously been the property of the Visconti family.
Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan ... Minted in: Milan (city) coin. Museum number 1870,0507.8494 | Authority Ruler: Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of ...
Sforza, Gian Galeazzo (1469–94) in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance Length: 101 words View all related items in Oxford Reference »
After a power struggle, Galeazzo Maria’s brother, Ludovico il Moro (“the moor,” so called because of his dark complexion), seized control. Ludovico Sforza (1452–1508) was the second son of Francesco Sforza. He acted as regent for his nephew from 1480 until 1494. When Gian Galeazzo died, Ludovico assumed the title of duke himself.
