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...occasionally to buy new acquisitions. Maintenance cost, including the salaries of 322 civil service personnel, are borne by the Government. These costs come to $1,300,000 a year. In the same period, an average 1,779,088 taxpayers visit the gallery, enjoy a feast of treasures that no Medici prince or Bourbon King ever matched...
...Medicis in Action. The Renaissance, as he lays it out, "first of all ... took money-smelly bourgeois money"; and he growls for good measure a byword of the 19th century materialism that shaped his attitude: "Money is the root of all civilization." Following this economic predilection, Durant gives the clearest description in any one-volume history of the age of the fiscal and political hotbed of Florence, where those hardy perennials, the Medici, first reared their brilliant heads. Item: he recites with delight how the fiscal-minded Florentines won a war against Venice and Naples by calling in so many...
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...museum gave no hint of the price it had paid for its new Aphrodite, but called the statue the artistic equal of the Uffizi's Medici Venus-which was probably copied from the same Greek original. It was Praxiteles who created the first unclad Aphrodite, around the middle of the 4th century B.C. Praxiteles' original is lost to art, but many a sculptor afterwards tried to give his work the same fluid lines and graceful posture. Of those who tried, the unknown sculptor of the Metropolitan Aphrodite is one of the few who even came close...
...always doodling. It was such gifted doodling, however, that at 13 the scrawny Michelangelo was put to learn the painter's trade in the workshop of Ghirlandaio. Within a year the master himself was making jealous noises at his prodigious protégé. Lorenzo de Medici, the Florentine dictator, was so impressed with the boy's genius that he adopted him and educated him as one of his own sons...