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The Medici Madonna is a marble sculpture carved by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti measuring about 88.98 inches (226 cm) in height. Dating from 1521 to 1534, the sculpture is a piece of the altar decoration of the Sagrestia Nuova in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence. [1]
- 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...
May 23, 2007 · This article examines aspects of the relationship of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Ippolita Sforza, Duchess of Calabria, through a close reading of two familiar letters by the latter dating from 1480 and 1486.
- Judith Bryce
- 2007
Francesco I Sforza KG (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ˈpriːmo ˈsfɔrtsa]; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
Sep 11, 2010 · The Medici Madonna is in the funery chapel designed for the Medici dynasty in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence. It is one of the many attempts by Michelangelo to depict the subject of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
Nov 13, 2018 · The pope, in an anti-Medicean function, entrusted the Pisa chair to the young Francesco Salviati (Florence, 1443 - 1478), a cousin of Jacopo Pazzi (the latter’s mother, Caterina Salviati, was Francesco’s aunt) and, above all, a man strongly opposed to the Medici since Lorenzo, in 1474, had prevented him from becoming archbishop of Florence ...
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Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (Italian: [loˈrɛntso de ˈmɛːditʃi]), known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Italian: Lorenzo il Magnifico; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492), [2] was an Italian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. [3][4][5] Lorenzo held the balance of ...
