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...Last year, he took a landscape by Leonardo to Vinci, to show the work against its own backdrop....
...As expected, there was a sumptuous parade of portraits made to honour the circle of Florence’s then ruler, Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. But the picture that astonished me was a Christ on the Cross....
...Vasari had been ordered by Cosimo the Great, duke of Florence, to refurbish the Hall of the Five Hundred in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, now the city hall....
...(Botticelli never rendered the countryside in such detail; indeed, Leonardo da Vinci accused him of painting “miserable landscapes”.)...
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