Florence is set to travel back in time on April 5th and 6th as the Visarno Hippodrome.
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Tag: Medici family
Royal Apartments Reopen at Palazzo Pitti After Five Years
After five years the opulent Royal Apartments at Palazzo Pitti are once again open to the public.
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A Medici Legacy in Court: The Unfolding Drama of a 1739 Will
A direct descendant of the Medici dynasty and the Italian State are at the center of a legal battle.
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90 masterpieces of the Medici family at the Met Museum NY
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, with 90 masterpieces of the Medici family will be inaugurated June 26, 2021. Some of the greatest portraits of Western art were painted in Florence during the tumultuous years from 1512 to 1570, when the city was transformed from a republic with elected officials into a duchy ruled by the Medici family.
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Big ratings for The Masters of Florence TV series
Italian state broadcaster RAI scored big ratings on Tuesday evening for the first episode of a new series on the Medici dynasty.
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Medici: Masters Of Florence starts shooting
This morning the filming of Medici: Masters of Florence began in the center of Florence.
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#Expo2015, Medici tapestries in an itinerant exhibit
Twenty famous Medici tapestries featuring the stories of Joseph the Jew are to be brought together in an itinerant exhibition to coincide with Milan Expo 2015.
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Medici ivory on show in Florence
The Medici family’s famed collection of ivory sculptures, carvings and assorted artworks have been put together for the first time in a sprawling exhibit at the palace once owned by Florence’s most powerful dynasty.
Read moreMichelangelo design copied from Leonardo
An art scholar suggests Michelangelo copied fellow artist Leonardo da Vinci in the design of a great gilded copper ball once placed atop Florence’s basilica of San Lorenzo. Vincenzo Vaccaro, an official with the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage of Florence, made the claim last week y in the Medici Chapels.
Read moreThe Medici Chapels and Michelangelo’s “crown”
The original “crown” of the lantern which Pope Leo X commissioned Michelangelo to design and which sat atop the dome of the New Sacristy in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence until 2002, will be on display again as of today, in the crypt of the Medici Chapels.
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