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...The covered, year-round terrace is furnished with cushion-plumped seating, overlooking the greenery of Medici Courtyard....
...At some point between 1560 and 1574 Catherine de’ Medici placed a very special order. It was for some 40 string instruments destined for the orchestra of her young son, Charles IX of France....
...This is not just any old Carrara marble, but Breccia Medicea marble — the ultra-veiny marble of choice for the Medicis....
...There is a British connection, too, to another rare autograph work to come to the market at Sotheby’s: an idealised female head personifying Peace by Antonio Canova, the greatest exponent of pure, cool Neo-Classical...
...“We paid a hefty price but it is not a financial transaction,” says Antonio Belloni, group managing director at LVMH....
...I de’Medici in c1568-77 to the fair this year....
...Staged across gorgeous vaulted Renaissance galleries, by turns replicating church interiors, immersive domestic environments and the esoteric “Studiolo” cabinet of Francesco de Medici, the Strozzi show is...
...Doria Pamphilj, Rome; Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Parrocchia Sant’Antonio di Padova, Moncalvo; NMWA, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Private collection; Diocese of Prato...
...When the Strozzi clan wanted to play one-upmanship with the Medicis, they sponsored the first copy of Pliny’s Natural History in Italian....
...He acquired his first piece in the late 1990s, an alabaster relief by the 15th-century Venetian Antonio Rizzo. “It all just started and I got really involved.”...
...(The other great Florentine example is an “Adoration of the Magi” fresco (1459-61) by Benozzo Gozzoli in the Palazzo Medici in Florence)....
...The pawning activities of the Medicis, meanwhile, came to influence the very symbology of the industry itself — the golden balls in their coat of arms are the mark of pawnbrokers all around the world....
...“He should resign soon if he is left with a bit of dignity,” says Lucia Medici, a shopkeeper....
...The former chief executive, Antonio Vigni, who made way for Mr Viola, is now a consultant for the foundation....
...Montserrat Caballé A film by Antonio Farré Medici Arts This 100-minute DVD is not so much a Caballé portrait, more a film-autobiography with bit-parts for the people and places that played a role in her...
...While Titian and Veronese were dignifying Venice’s grandees, a new autocratic Medici regime in 1530s Florence demanded a new court painter....
...As well as reproductions of Danti’s equipment – the originals can be seen in the church of Santa Maria Novella – astronomical highlights are the four brass armillary spheres made by Antonio Lupicini....
...The second half of the novel transports us, abruptly, to Florence under the Medicis....
...In a symbolic act he held a rally in a Medici palace confiscated by the state from an infamous Mafia don, Raffaele Cutolo, now serving a life sentence....
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