Word: medicis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three drawings by Michelangelo, the sculptor struggles to discover the proper angle for a tensely muscular leg, later carved in marble for the famous figure Night in the Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo in Florence. Titian is represented by a study of legs done in thick black chalk a decade before the resulting painting, Martyrdom of St. Lorenzo, was hung in the church of the Jesuits in Venice. On a sheet of paper measuring 5¼ in. by 5¾ in., Leonardo da Vinci crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes...
From the days of the Medici, Florence has been a city of treasures that every eye could see. In one direction was a chapel by Michelangelo, in another a dome by Brunelleschi; here was a bronze door by Ghiberti, there a statue by Donatello. But these were only a part of Florence's great legacy...
...Vatican conclave from which he emerged, basket on arm, as Pope Clement XII. The Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing the arms of Roberto Strozzi and Maddalena de Medici marked one of the great weddings of the 16th century. A delicately inlaid table had been the gift of Clement VII to his Governor of Bologna, Francesco Guicciardini...
Panties or knickers were invented because of Henry II's wife, Catherine de Medici, whose shapely legs were all too visible riding sidesaddle on windy days. Ironically, conservative 16th century moralists resisted the innovation. "Women should . leave their buttocks uncovered under their skirts," they said. "They should not appropriate a masculine garment but leave their behinds nude as is suitable for their...
...modern Medici has stocked his 45-room Manhattan mansion on East 93rd Street with sculptures, now owns some 50-odd pieces that form a handsome compendium of sculpture over the past 130 years. Rose had no plans for parting with any of it until last year, when he got a letter from the mayor of Jerusalem, inquiring about his ideas for the collection and informing him that a local art show had drawn 600,000 visitors. "That spelled hunger," Billy says, "real hunger for art. Why, the total population is only around 2,000,000. It's like...