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27 de jun. de 2024 · Cosimo de’ Medici is known for being the founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence from 1434 to 1537. He was a patron of the arts and humanism and played an important role in the Italian Renaissance.
- Cosimo De' Medici
Cosimo de’ Medici was born on September 27, 1389, in...
- Cosimo De' Medici
2 de jul. de 2024 · The main challengers to the Albizzi family were the Medici, first under Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, later under his son Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici and great-grandson, Lorenzo de' Medici. The Medici controlled the Medici Bank—then Europe's largest bank—and an array of other enterprises in Florence and elsewhere.
20 de jun. de 2024 · Cosimo de’ Medici (1519–74), great-great-grandson of Lorenzo, became duke of Florence, then grand duke of Tuscany (1569), and reigned as Cosimo I. He established a new dynasty that perpetuated the family’s traditional regard for the arts and sciences.
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29 de jun. de 2024 · According to Giorgio Vasari, the sculpture was made by Baccio Bandinelli, in competition with his rival Benvenuto Cellini. The two sculptors were commissioned by Cosimo I to produce his portrait in bronze as proof of their respective abilities.
29 de jun. de 2024 · This posthumous portrait of him was commissioned to Pontormo by Goro Gori da Pistoia, probably by request of Pope Leo X, originally known as Giovanni de’ Medici. Since October 1519, Gori had been the head of the extraordinary administration of Florence and he had long been the secretary and loyal advisor of Lorenzo de’ Medici ...
20 de jun. de 2024 · Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals. It provided the Roman Catholic Church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families of Europe.
29 de jun. de 2024 · Commissioned by Grand Duke Francesco I de'Medici, it is an octagonal "room of wonders" designed by Bernardo Buontalenti, an amazing room visible from several sides where admission is not allowed because of its floor's delicacy.
