The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1822. Its remains are now part of the...
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The Villa L'Ambrogiana was a rural palace or villa built during the late-Renaissance by Ferdinand I de' Medici; it is located at the confluence of the...
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The Villa Medici is a patrician villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy, the fourth oldest of the villas built for the Medici family. It was built between 1451...
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closed to the public until at least 2020. The Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo and the Villa Medicea del Trebbio in the valley of the Mugello had been previous...
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The Villa di Castello, near the hills bordering Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, was the country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany...
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(1596–1738) Villa di Collesalvetti (1464–1738) Villa di Agnano (1486–1498) Villa di Arena Metato (c.1563 - 1738) Villa di Spedaletto (1486–1492) Villa di Stabbia...
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The Villa di Montevettolini is a Medici villa in the comune of Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, central Italy. Also called Monte Veturino, the villa was built...
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Palace in Stockholm from 1700 to 1704. Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo Villa Medici at Careggi Villa Medici in Fiesole Villa Medicea di Pratolino Villa Medici...
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Villa del Poggio Imperiale (English: Villa of the Imperial Hill) is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just to the south...
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the Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo. In the sixteenth century the villa was enlarged by Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who enjoyed hunting in the...
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Medici Villas. Complete Guide, Giunti 2003. Giardini di Toscana, Edifir, Florence 2001 La Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano [The Medici villa at Poggio...
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paintings of Medici villas by Giusto Utens (previously held by the Museo di Firenze com'era). Medici villas "Firenze - Villa medicea della Petraia". 26...
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The Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo is a villa situated near the Tuscan town of Barberino di Mugello in the valley of the River Sieve, some 25 kilometres...
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He established the Medici Oriental Press (Typographia Medicea), which published numerous books in the Arabic script. He improved the harbour Cosimo I had...
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Villa Madama is a Renaissance-style rural palace (villa) located on Via di Villa Madama #250 in Rome, Italy. Located west of the city center and a few...
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Francesco I de' Medici (section In fiction)
allowed him to dabble in chemistry and alchemical schemes. Francesco and Bianca died on 19 and 20 October, both at the Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano. Although...
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de' Medici; married Angelo Ardinghelli. Brucker, Gene A. (1957). The Medici in the Fourteenth Century. Medieval Academy of America. Lee, Alexander (2014)...
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Giuliano de' Medici (section Portrayals in media)
– first on the road to Piombino, then in Rome, and finally at a banquet hosted by the Medici at their villa in Fiesole. Giuliano did not come, claiming...
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Giambuono de' Medici, who served in the Signoria of Florence in 1401, and Salvestro de' Medici, who was implicated in the Ciompi Revolt of 1378, are of...
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Princes of Ottajano (category Princes in Italy)
Gonzaga in 1567 the fiefdom of Ottaviano, located near Naples. Over the centuries, this remaining House of Medici has reached a leading position in the aristocracy...
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Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (category 16th-century monarchs in Europe)
September 1492 – 4 May 1519) was the ruler of Florence from 1516 until his death in 1519. He was also Duke of Urbino during the same period. His daughter Catherine...
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Pope Julius II. Giuliano reigned in Florence following his brother's election to the papacy in 1513, until he died in 1516. He married Filiberta (1498–1524)...
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Leonardo da Vinci (category Burials in France)
French from Milan. Leonardo stayed in the city, spending several months in 1513 at the Medici's Vaprio d'Adda villa. In March 1513, Lorenzo de' Medici's...
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Cosimo I de' Medici (category 16th-century monarchs in Europe)
state to his son and successor Francesco I. He retreated to live in his villa, the Villa di Castello, outside Florence. Cosimo was an authoritarian ruler...
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Cappella dei Principi (category Chapels in Florence)
Cappella dei Principi ("Chapel of the Princes" in English) is the mausoleum of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and their families and is part of the museum...
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coup, in part because his son Lorenzo discovered a road-block set up by the conspirators to capture Piero in his trip toward the Medici Villa di Careggi;...
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Venus de' Medici (category Archaeological discoveries in Italy)
Nicholas Penny remarked. It was published in the collection at the Villa Medici, Rome, in 1638, given three plates in the anthology of the most noble sculptures...
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Piero the Unfortunate (category 15th-century lords in Europe)
than Piero. In 1486, Piero's uncle Bernardo Rucellai negotiated for him to marry the Tuscan noblewoman Alfonsina Orsini and stood in for him in a marriage...
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Leo XI. Cosimo Maria de' Medici - born in 1991; Guglielmo de' Medici - born in 1992; Lorenzo de' Medici - born in 2009. Ottaviano de' Medici di Toscana...
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Medici lions (category Outdoor sculptures in Florence)
By 1598 both were placed at the Villa Medici, Rome. Since 1789 they have been displayed at the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. The sculptures depict standing...
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