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Medici-Laurentian Atlas

If the original date 1351 is true, that would make it the first (extant) map to incorporate the travel reports of Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta.


Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence

One relic of his rule sometimes pointed out as a symbol of Medici oppression is the massive Fortezza da Basso, today the largest historical monument of Florence.

Historians (such as Christopher Hibbert) believe he had been born to a mulatto servant who was working in the Medici household, identified in documents as Simonetta da Collevecchio.

Alessandro de' Medici (July 22, 1510 – January 6, 1537) called "il Moro" ("the Moor"), Duke of Penne and also Duke of Florence (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 until 1537.

Andrea della Valle

In 1584 the combined collection was purchased en bloc by Cardinal Ferdinand de' Medici and dispersed among various Medici dwellings, mostly at the Villa de Medici in Rome, but transferred in part to Florence, where della Valle sculptures can be seen today in the Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens, in the Uffizi and at the Medici villa at Poggio Imperiale.

Anton Domenico Gabbiani

Born in Florence, Gabbiani first apprenticed with the Medici court portrait painter Justus Sustermans, then with the Florentine Vincenzo Dandini; subsequently moved to Rome in 1673 he arrived in Rome, where he studied under the Medici-sponsored Accademia Fiorentina, led by Ciro Ferri and Ercole Ferrata.

Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria

Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (1589–1631), daughter of Charles II, Archduke of Inner Austria, and Maria Anna of Bavaria, wife of Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Baldassarre Lanci

His urban works included the design of Terra del Sole a fortified new city for Cosimo I de' Medici, in what is now the Province of Forlì-Cesena.

Bartolomeo Bimbi

He partly was following the tradition of Jacopo Ligozzi in documenting the botanical collections of the Medici.

Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence

The Medici Pope Leo X gave Michelangelo the commission to design a façade in white Carrara marble in 1518.

Brivius de Brokles

Francesco (1680 + 1732) married Elena Attendolo Bolognini, member of an important noble family from Milan and descendant (by mother, Cecilia Medici di Marignano) from Pope Pius IV and Gian Giacomo Medici.

Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues

Upon the King's death, his wife, Queen Marie de' Medici, was named Regent by Parliament, and immediately exiled Catherine from the royal court.

Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane

He coincided with the final months of Gian Gastone de' Medici, the last Medici Grand Duke.

Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici

Cosimo de' Medici ('the Elder', Pater Patriae) (1389-1464), first Medici ruler of Florence

Florentine Histories

At the end of that year, Cardinal Giulio de Medici, later Pope Clement VII, commissioned him history of Florence.

Francesco Camero Medici

Francesco Canero Medici (01-06-1886, São Paulo, Brazil - 19-5-1946, Rome, Italy)was an Italian diplomat, who worked with Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi and Italo Balbo.

Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma

From the Medici in Florence in 1601 came an over-lifesize marble of Samson and a Philistine by Giovanni da Bologna, presented as a diplomatic gift.

François Gall

After having Aurel Popp for the first master, he studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Workshop Coromaldi in Rome before joining the Collegium Hungaricum (equivalent to Villa Medici), then travel to Europe through Scholarship to study obtained for his talents as a sculptor, ceramicist, designer, painter and portraitist already large, including Roman and Hungarian families, bystanders and onlookers, friends, musicians, singers, street scenes of markets and caravans circuses street.

Friedrich Spielhagen

As a translator, Spielhagen rendered into German George William Curtis's Howadji, Ralph Waldo Emerson's English Traits, a selection of American poems (1859; 2d ed. 1865), and William Roscoe's Lorenzo de' Medici.

Giambologna

Ten years later, he was named a member (Accademico) of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, just founded by the Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the painter-architect Giorgio Vasari, becoming also one of the Medici's most important court sculptors.

Gian Giacomo Medici

Gian Giacomo Medici (25 January 1498 – 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.

Girolamo Riario

Having taken part in the 1478 Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici, 10 years later he was assassinated by members of the Forlesian Orsi family.

Gondi family

Carlo de Gondi was a staunch backer of Piero de' Medici, and when the Medici came to be Grand Dukes, the Gondi received empty but honorary titles of Senators.

House of Cerva

Toma Crijević or Tommaso Cerva (16th century) - Dominican, lawyer and outstanding jurist, was bishop of Trebinje and Mercana, director of the church of Ston between 1541 and 1559 and general vicar of the archbishop of Dubrovnik, Giovanni Angelo Medici, who became Pope Pius IV in 1559.

Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere

On 11 February 1688 he married Maria Cristina d'Altemps, daughter of Pietro d'Altemps (Duke of Gallese and Marquis of Soriano) and Angelica de' Medici (granddaughter of Giulio de' Medici).

Italian campaign of 1524–25

Medici was seriously wounded and withdrew to Piacenza to recuperate, forcing Francis to recall much of the Milan garrison to offset the departure of the Black Band; but the fighting had little overall effect.

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medici's large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medicean villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's death in 1737, and her Palatine treasures to the Tuscan state, on the condition that no part of it could be removed from the capital Florence.

Karen Woodbury Gallery

Del Kathryn Barton, Cathy Blanchflower, Robert Boynes, Jane Burton, Michael Cusack, Michael Doolan, McLean Edwards, Kate Ellis, Marie Hagerty, Titania Henderson, Sam Jinks, Locust Jones, Elisabeth Kruger, Rhys Lee, Fiona Lowry, Magda Matwiejew, eX de Medici, Lara Merrett, Jonathan Nichols, Simon Obarzanek, Derek O'Connor, John Pule, Lisa Roet, Kate Rohde, Alex Spremberg, Heather B. Swann, Monika Tichacek and Philip Wolfhagen.

Marina Gamba

When Galileo left Padua for good in 1610 to take up his position at the Medici court in Florence, he took the two daughters with him but left their mother behind with 4 year-old Vincenzo, who joined his father in Florence a few years later.

Medici villas

The first Medici villas were the Villa del Trebbio and that at Cafaggiolo, both strong fortified houses built in the 14th century in the Mugello region, the original home of the Medici family.

Ospedale del Ceppo

Also from 1525 are the tondoes by Giovanni della Robbia, depicting the Annunciation, the Glory of the Virgin, the Visitation and the Medici coat of arms.

Palazzo della Carovana

Amongst the sculptures are the Medici Coat of Arms and that of the Knights, flanked by the allegories of Religion and Justice by Stoldo Lorenzi (1563).

Palazzo Madama

After the extinction of the Medici, the palace was handed over to the House of Lorraine and, later, to Pope Benedict XIV, who made it the seat of the Papal Government.

Paolo Antonio Soderini

In Rome he established himself in a house and garden close to Castel Sant'Angelo, where he undertook some informal excavations and assembled a notable collection of antiquities, including Roman sculpture (including the Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus that passed from his heir to the Medici and can be seen today in Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence) and inscriptions.

Papal conclave, 1521–22

The conclave was marked by the early candidacies of cardinal-nephew Giulio de'Medici (future Pope Clement VII) and Alessandro Farnese (future Pope Paul III), although the Colonna and other cardinals blocked their election.

Pazzi conspiracy

On Sunday, 26 April 1478, during High Mass at the Duomo before a crowd of 10,000, the Medici brothers were assaulted.

Piero de' Medici

Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1416–1469) (the Gouty, also Piero I de' Medici), father of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Rebecca Horn

She directed the films; Der Eintänzer (1978), La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) and Buster's Bedroom (1990).

Later films include La Ferdinanda: Sonata for a Medici Villa, and Buster's Bedroom.

Silvio Passerini

With the young Alessandro and Ippolito de' Medici in tow, he attended the first performance of Niccolò Machiavelli's comedy La Mandragola, Vasari related.

Spinettone

The spinnettoni that Cristofori built were intended for the Medici family of Florence, more specifically for his patron Prince Ferdinando, the son of Grand Duke Cosimo III and heir to the Tuscan throne.

Squarcialupi

Antonio Squarcialupi, Florentine organist and composer to Lorenzo de' Medici

Stefano Rossetto

Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich.

Stradanus

The Medici court was his main patron, and he designed a number of scenes for tapestries and frescoes to decorate the Palazzo Vecchio, the villa of Poggio a Caiano, and the Arazzeria Medicea in Florence.

The Age of the Medici

The Age of the Medici, originally released in Italy as L'età di Cosimo de Medici (The Age of Cosimo de Medici), is a 1973 3-part TV series about the Renaissance in Florence, directed by Roberto Rossellini.

Tribuna of the Uffizi

Designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de' Medici in the late 1580s, the most important antiquities and High Renaissance and Bolognese paintings from the Medici collection were and still are displayed here.


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