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unusual facts about Giovanni di Paolo


Giovanni di Paolo

It seems their Northern influence may have rubbed off on Giovanni because his landscapes resemble those in the famous painting by the Limbourg brothers; Tres Riches Heures.



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Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai

At some time between Leo's return to Florence from Bologna on 22 December 1515 and his departure for Rome on 19 February 1516, he attended a performance of Giovanni Rucellai's tragedy Rosmunda, and perhaps also the Sophonisba of Gian Giorgio Trissino, in the Orti Oricellari, the famous gardens of Palazzo Rucellai, built by Giovanni's grandfather Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai.

Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai

Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai was well-acquainted with the classics and he kept a Zibaldone into which he copied his translations of passages from Greek and Latin authors such as Aristotle, Boethius and Seneca the Younger.

Giovanni Rucellai

Bernardo Rucellai (1448–1514), son of Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai and father of Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai