In Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti's ducal tombs in the Medici church of San Lorenzo particularly impressed him. |
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The sculptures in the Medici Palace repeat features of the Athenian sculpture reflected in works of art and described in the literary sources. |
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Foggini was also active as a designer of furniture and hardstone objects for the Medici grand dukes, many of his drawings for which survive. |
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The final section of this exhibition is devoted to works executed by artists after they had left Rome and the Villa Medici. |
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This shows the Medici device of a diamond ring with two feathers, as on the Valencian lustred vase in the British Museum. |
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You don't have to be a Medici to commission a creative work, in fact if it's not being disrespectful, we almost did it on lay-by. |
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In 1512 the exiled Medici family was restored to power following eighteen years of republican government. |
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Jupiter in Cosimo de Medici II's horoscope held a dominant position, being clearly the strongest planet. |
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She then founded the Bank Medici AG in Vienna and used it as a feeder fund for Madoff. |
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Piecing together her reports on her researches into Florentine politics and history is a bit like working through a history of the Medici as rewritten by an Asian James Joyce. |
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These stone roundels, of uncertain date and attribution, seem like large-scale sculptures derived from ancient gems and incised precious stones acquired by the Medici. |
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In 2003, Hockney was awarded the Lorenzo de' Medici Lifetime Career Award of the Florence Biennale, Italy. |
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At the French court, she was a favourite with everyone, except Henry II's wife Catherine de' Medici. |
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The affluence of the merchant class allowed extensive patronage of the arts, and foremost among the patrons were the Medici. |
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Overlooking Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps are the gardens of Pincio and Villa Medici. |
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Cosimo de' Medici and Alfonso V of Aragon entered the Italic League, together with Pope Nicholas, with Francesco Sforza of Milan and with Venice. |
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In the 18th century, three unpublished familiar letters from Vespucci to Lorenzo de' Medici were rediscovered. |
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There are some estimates that the Medici family was, for a period of time, the wealthiest family in Europe. |
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He did well and on March 25, 1402, the third branch of the Medici bank was opened. |
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The London branch of the Medici bank had already been dropped as a full partnership in 1465, and had been reincorporated as an accomando. |
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Lorenzo de' Medici was considered a political and cultural mastermind of Italy in the late 15th century. |
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Between 1575 and 1587 Medici porcelain from Florence was the first successful attempt to imitate Chinese porcelain. |
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The Medici was also a group that treated wounded soldiers on the battlefield. |
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The Medici were used on both the front line as emergency care providers and in the rear as the main physicians. |
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The Capsarii were mainly used as the front line care providers and bandagers, but also assisted the Medici behind the lines. |
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With the succession of her minor son Charles IX in 1560, Catherine de' Medici maneuvered for a balance of power. |
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Many have emphasized the role played by the Medici, a banking family and later ducal ruling house, in patronizing and stimulating the arts. |
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Serapica was a man of remarkably mansuetudinous disposition, which is perhaps why Cardinal de' Medici had taken him into his employment. |
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According to Mainwaring, in 1706 Handel travelled to Italy at the invitation of Ferdinando de' Medici. |
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De' Medici, who had a keen interest in opera, was trying to make Florence Italy's musical capital by attracting the leading talents of his day. |
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Cosimo de' Medici in Florence established his own collection, which formed the basis of the Laurentian Library. |
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In March 1530, as a result of his service to the Medici, Guicciardini was declared a rebel and had his property confiscated. |
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Then, Guicciardini allied himself with Cosimo de' Medici, who was just 17 and new to the Florentine political system. |
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Siena fell in 1555 and eventually became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany founded by Cosimo I de' Medici. |
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Medici porcelain was the first successful attempt in Europe to make imitations of Chinese porcelain. |
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When Francesco died, his younger brother Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici inherited the position of Grand Duke. |
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In 1772 an auction in the Palazzo Vecchio of objects from storage dispersed the Medici porcelains conserved in Tuscany. |
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A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. |
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Florence was home to the Medici, one of European history's most important noble families. |
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Catherine de Medici married king Henry II of France and, after his death in 1559, reigned as regent in France. |
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Cosimo de' Medici was the first Medici family member to essentially control the city from behind the scenes. |
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The fact that the Medici were bankers to the pope also contributed to their ascendancy. |
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With his exile in 1494, the first period of Medici rule ended with the restoration of a republican government. |
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He blamed the exile of the Medici as the work of God, punishing them for their decadence. |
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Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city. |
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The building acquired its current name when the Medici duke's residence was moved across the Arno to the Palazzo Pitti. |
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Engendered by the Medici family's artistic collections through the centuries, it houses works of art by various painters and artists. |
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His Froissart and De Comines novels are skipworthy, but when he comes to Catharine de Medici and Henri Quatre he is a magician. |
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Even at the time of its downfall, the Medici bank was the biggest bank in Europe, with at least seven branches and over fifty factors. |
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De Roover attributes the beginning of the bank's decline to Cosimo de' Medici. |
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Another factor in the decline of the Medici bank were the spending habits of the Medici. |
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But such a move would have hurt the Medici name, and so it was undertaken too late. |
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The Medici bank's remaining assets and records were seized and distributed to creditors and others. |
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Indeed, the structure of the Medici Bank resembles nothing so much as the modern holding company. |
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The Rome branch of the Medici bank was a fully incorporated partnership which technically did not reside in Rome. |
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Accounts with the Medici were kept secret and generally free from prying, ecclesiastical eyes, especially in the case of discretionary deposits. |
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That service, too, the Medici could provide to a degree, though not in all areas. |
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Tornabuoni would still be in charge when 1494 came and the edifice of the Medici came crashing down. |
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Philip's third wife was Elisabeth of Valois, the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
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Because of his close ties to the Medici, Guicciardini was held suspect in his native city. |
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The King of England had him over a barrel as the king could block any attempts to export English wool by the Medici, which was desperately needed by the bank for two reasons. |
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By 1494, the Milan branch of the Medici bank also ceased to exist. |
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Knowing that he would be susceptible to the arguments of his persuasive co-brother-in-law Antonio de' Medici, Saminiato tried to avoid his company. |
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An example is one of those renaissance Annunciations whose connection with the Villa Medici, Fiesole, for which it is the big illustration, is not explained. |
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The show features material not dissimilar to that found in an exhibition held in 1949 at the same museum to mark the quincentenary of the birth of Lorenzo de' Medici. |
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The letter, to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, claims that Vespucci determined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voyage. |
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The experimental manufactory housed in the Casino of San Marco in Florence existed between 1575 and 1587 under the patronage of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. |
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After joining the Portuguese exploration of Brazil in 1500, Amerigo Vespucci coined the term New World, in his letters to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. |
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Ferdinando brought his prized Chinese and Medici porcelains back with him to Florence from the Villa Medici in Rome, along with his paintings and treasured Roman antiquities. |
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This led to a need for banking services that the Medici could provide. |
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Restored twice with the support of both Emperor and Pope, the Medici in 1537 became hereditary dukes of Florence, and in 1569 Grand Dukes of Tuscany, ruling for two centuries. |
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Other notable artists include Sandro Botticelli, working for the Medici in Florence, Donatello, another Florentine, and Titian in Venice, among others. |
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The Palazzo Strozzi, an example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, was inspired by the Palazzo Medici, but with more harmonious proportions. |
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On March 24, 1439, the Medici branch at Bruges was officially founded. |
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Lorenzo de' Medici, merchant, Florentine bust, 14th or 15th century. |
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During his time in Spain, the Medici regained power in Florence. |
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The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
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