(1240–1302) Cenni (Bencivieni) di Pepo The artist’s works: Cristo deriso c.1280 Private collection Flagellazione di Cristo c.1280 Frick Collection, New York Maestà c.1280 Musée du Louvre, Paris Maestà con due angeli c.1280–1285 National Gallery, London Maestà c.1290–1300 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Cimabue in Literature:…
Giotto (c.1267-1337) San Francesco riceve le stimmate (St. Francis receiving the stigmata) c.1300–1325 Tempera and gold on poplar, 313 x 163 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Signature: OPUS IOCTI FLORENTINI (“Work of Florentine Giotto”). At the predella: The dream of Innocent…
(1469–1527) Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Works: • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (English) • History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy (English) • La mandragola, La Clizia, Belfagor (Italian) • Machiavelli, Volume I (English)…
(c.1266–1290) Beatrice “Bice” di Folco Portinari de’ Bardi Beatrice in Art: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Tate Britain, London Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Dantis Amor 1860 Tate…
(1313–1375) Works: • Alcesto e Acaten (Italian) • Amorosa visione (1342-1343) • Canto di Ameto (Italian) • Corbaccio (1354) • De mulieribus claris (1361) • Decameron (Italian) ◊ De Decamerone van Boccaccio (Dutch) ◊ Novelleja Decameronesta (Finnish) ◊ The Decameron…
(1950) Filmography as Actress: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno 1974 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger Born October 13 1950 Firenze (Italia) Occupation Actor
(c.1445–1510) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi The artist’s works: Madonna col Bambino e angelo c.1465 Spedale degli Innocenti, Firenze Madonna col Bambino e un angelo c.1465–1467 Musée Fesch, Ajaccio Madonna col Bambino e angeli 1468–1469 Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli Madonna con Bambino,…
(1923–2019) Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli, KBE, Grande Ufficiale OMRI Member of the Italian Senate (1994–2001) Filmography as Director: The Taming of the Shrew 1967 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La dama col liocorno (Lady with a Unicorn) c.1505–1506 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 67 x 56 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The young woman depicted is a Florentine girl, as can be seen from the precious fashionable dress of…
(1545–1561) Lucrezia de’ Medici Duchessa di Ferrara, Modena e Reggio (1558-1561) Born February 14 1545 Firenze (Italia) Died April 21 1561 Ferrara (Italia) Cause of death Tuberculosis Father Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) Grandfather Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498-1526) Grandmother…