¶Raphael’s famed portrait of the powerful, crafty Florentine ruler, Giuliano de’ Medici. This somber classic Italian Renaissance masterpiece disappeared for three centuries, was rediscovered ...

Step back in time to Florence, 1475. At the height of Medici power, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici rule the city as patrons of art, intellect, and political strategy. But behind the ...

Step back in time to Florence, 1475. At the height of Medici power, where Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici rule the city as patrons of art, intellect, and political strategy. But behind the ...

Sandro Botticelli, Giuliano de’ Medici (c. 1478/1480. Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ... Some believe the painting was a Medici wedding gift.

♪ [Church bells ringing] Narrator: In 1516, Giuliano de' Medici died of tuberculosis. With his patron gone, Leonardo accepted an invitation that would take him beyond Italy for the first time in ...

The painting is described by de’ Beatis as “a certain Florentine woman portrayed from life at the behest of the late Giuliano de’ Medici”. It seems that Giuliano, Leonardo’s patron in ...

In 1530, when the Medici family returned to power in the city, the artist went into hiding. He spent his days drawing on the walls of his tiny refuge, and you can now view the artworks for yourself.

In the foundation’s account, Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo, husband of the painting’s subject, Lisa Gherardini, commissioned the 1503 copy, while Giuliano de’ Medici, Leonardo ...

Picasso painting sells for €130 million and breaks 2023 art auction record “The major scholars of Michelangelo’s drawings dismissed the attributions at the time of discovery", she said.

Visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-secret space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed to Michelangelo.

The tiny 33-by-10 feet space was discovered in 1975 when officials were searching for a new exit from the Medici Chapel ... They include sketches believed to be the legs of Giuliano de’ Medici, ...