Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola (Madonna of the Chair) c.1512 Oil on wood, diameter 71 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Mary is seen from the side, seated on a ‘chamber chair’, a type of seat reserved for the high dignitaries of the papal…
(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)…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1550 Oil on wood, 60 x 48.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified,…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Bacco (Bacchus) c.1598 Oil on canvas, 95 x 85 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This painting is part of the author’s early series of half-length portraits painted ‘in chiaro’, which includes works such as the ‘Fruttaiolo’ (Boy with a…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ritratto di Francesco I de’ Medici (Portrait of Francesco I de’ Medici) c.1558 Oil on lead with gold leaf, diameter 7.3 cm Private collection Francesco I was the son of Cosimo de Medici and Eleonor of Toledo…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Isabella de’ Medici Orsini con un cane (Isabella de’ Medici Orsini with a Dog) early 1560s Oil on panel, 88 × 71 cm Private collection, England See also: • Medici, Isabella de’ (1542-1576)
Copy after Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Isabella de’ Medici (Portrait of Isabella de Medici) late 17th century Oil on limewood panel, 61 x 45.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) was born in Florence and first trained…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo e il figlio Francesco (Eleanor of Toledo and her son Francesco) c.1549 Oil on panel, 114 x 95 cm Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale, Pisa See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) | Francesco I de’ Medici…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Cosimo I de’ Medici in armatura (Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour) c.1545 Oil on poplar panel, 86 x 66.8 x 3.5 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bronzino was the leading painter in mid 16th-century…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Don Giovanni e Don Garzia de’ Medici 1556–1558 Fresco, 70 x 90 cm Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze See also: • Medici, Garzia de’ (1547-1562) | Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I de’ (1543-1562)