In 1469, after Piero the Gouty’s death, his son Lorenzo became the statesman and the ruler of the Florentine Republic. As his grandfather Cosimo de’ Medici had previously done, Lorenzo aimed at keeping both peace and balance of power among the northern Italian states and, as a result, he managed to create a sense […]
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Piero de’ Medici, the son of Cosimo the Elder, was born in Florence in 1416 and became the Lord of Florence in 1464, but his patronage had a brief duration, only 6 years from 1464 to 1469, when he died after a long period of illness. His nickname, “the Gouty”, was due to the gout, […] If you come to Florence for studying Art History you can find extremely interesting the history of the Medici’s family. The Medicis were the first rulers of the city after the Republic period, that is from the 15th to the 18th century, and they were also the powerful patrons of all kind of artists […] Florence is an open-air museum and as such it should be explored by our students with the help of teachers and guides. This 16-hour course is meant to be a journey of rediscovery of the visual arts which flourished in Tuscany in the Renaissance period, as well as a “hands-on” approach to the […] Florence is an open-air museum and as such it should be explored by our students with the help of teachers and guides. This 16-hour course is meant to be a journey of rediscovery of the visual arts which flourished in Tuscany in the Renaissance period, as well as a “hands-on” approach to the […] Florence is an open-air museum and as such it should be explored by our students with the help of teachers and guides. This 16-hour course is meant to be a journey of rediscovery of the visual arts which flourished in Tuscany in the Renaissance period, as well as a “hands-on” approach to the […] Florence is an open-air museum and as such it should be explored by our students with the help of teachers and guides. This 16-hour course is meant to be a journey of rediscovery of the visual arts which flourished in Tuscany in the Renaissance period, as well as a “hands-on” approach to the work of […] Florence is an open-air museum and as such it should be explored by our students with the help of teachers and guides. This 16-hour course is meant to be a journey of rediscovery of the visual arts which flourished in Tuscany in the Renaissance period, as well as a “hands-on” approach to the work of […] This famous palace of Florence is the first Renaissance building erected in the city in the early Renaissance period. It was commissioned by the lord of Florence Cosimo the Eldest to Michelozzo in 1444. It is said that the patriarch of the Medici family asked Brunelleschi, the architect of the Dome, to design the palace […] |
 
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