Christopher - The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

4. Most of these turned-ivory ornaments were brought back to Florence by Prince Manias de’ Medici from the Castle of Coburg. They are in Room X.

5. The TEATRO DELLA PERGOLA (Via della Pergola, 12) was built by Ferdinando Tacca in 1656. The present building, designed by Bartolommeo Silvestri, is early-nineteenth-century.

6. The Via del Cocomero is now the Via Ricasoli.

7. Gian Carlo’s garden in the Via della Scala, where the members of the Platonic Academy had sometimes held their debates, has now been built over.

8. The enormous, forbidding VILLA AMBSOGIANA was originally built as a hunting lodge. The Grand Duke Cosimo III hung its walls with pictures of rare animals and flowers. It is now a mental hospital.

1. The VILLA LAPFEGGI stood for longer than eighteen years, though after the Cardinal’s death the second storey had to be removed for fear that the walls supporting it would fall down into the garden. Its shaky structure was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1895 and will soon, by all appearances, collapse altogether.

1. It was left to the despised Lorrainers and the ministers of the Grand Duke Francesco’s energetic son, Pietro Leopoldo, to reform the exhausted and oppressed State, the chaotic legislation and the exploited countryside of Florence which were the social and economic legacy of the later Medici. The splendour of their artistic and cultural legacy – the exuberance and elaborate craftsmanship of Florentine baroque art as triumphantly exemplified by such masters as Cosimo Ill’s sculptor, Giovanni Battista Foggini – has only recently been recognized. The exhibition held in Detroit and at the Pitti Palace in 1974, The Twilight of the Medici’ – which would have made scant appeal to Bernard Berenson – was the first of its kind.

Subject Work Artist Location

Giovanni di Bicci Posthumous painting Bronzino Medici-Riccardi Palace

Giovanni di Bicci Painting Zanobi Strozzi Medici-Riccardi Palace

Cosimo Pater Patriae Posthumous painting Pontormo Uffizi

Cosimo Pater Patriae Painting (being presented with model of San Lorenzo by Brunelleschi) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Lorenzo di Giovanni Posthumous painting Bronzino Uffizi

Piero di Cosimo Bust Mino da Fiesole Bargello

Giovanni di Cosimo Bust Mino da Fiesole Bargello

Lorenzo il Magnifico Posthumous painting Vasari Uffizi

Lorenzo il Magnifico Fresco (with members of the Sassetti family) Ghirlandaio Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinità

Lorenzo il Magnifico Fresco (seated before Cardinal Giovanni) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Lorenzo il Magnifico Painting Florentine school, early fifteenth century Medici-Riccardi Palace

Lorenzo il Magnifico Death mask Medici-Riccardi Palace

Piero Francesco di Lorenzo Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Piero di Lorenzo Painting Bronzino Medici-Riccardi Palace

Piero di Lorenzo Bust Verrocchio Bargello

Giuliano di Lorenzo Fresco (as boy with tutor, Poliziano) Ghirlandaio Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinità

(?) Contessina Bust Donatello Bargello

(?) Fioretta Gorini Painting Botticelli Pitti

Pope Leo X Painting (with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Liugi de’ Rossi Raphael Uffizi

Pope Leo X Fresco (proceeding through Florence) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Pope Leo X Fresco (creating thirty Cardinals) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Pope Clement VII Painting Bronzino Medici-Riccardi Palace

Duke Alessandro Painting Vasari Medici-Riccardi Palace

Ippolito Painting Titian Pitti

Caterina Painting ( aet 21 ) Poggio a Caiano

Caterina Painting ( aet 40 ) Pourbus Uffizi

Giovanni di Pierfrancesco Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Caterina Sforza Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Giovanni delta Bande Nere Statue Bandinelli Piazza San Lorenzo

Giovanni della Bande Nere Painting Titian Uffizi

Maria Salviati Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria

Cosimo I Painting ( aet 12) Attrib. Ridoifo Ghirlandaio Medici-Riccardi Palace

Cosimo I Painting (as a young man) Pontormo Medici-Riccardi Palace

Cosimo I Painting (the Election ) Francesco and Jacopo Ligozzi Palazzo della) Signoria

Cosimo I Painting Vasari Uffizi

Cosimo I Painting (in armour) Bronzino Uffizi

Cosimo I Equestrian Statue Giambologna Piazza della Signoria

Cosimo Bust Callini Bargello

Cosimo I Painting (wearing crown and robes of state) Bronzino Uffizi

Eleonora Toledo Painting Bronzino Studiolo di Francesco I, Palazzo della Signoria

Eleonora Toledo Painting (with Giovanni) Bronzino Uffizi

Isabella Painting Bronzino Uffizi

Garzia Painting Bronzino Uffizi

Cardinal Giovanni Painting Sustermans Poggio a Caiano

Pietro Painting Bronzino Uffizi

Francesco I Painting Veronese Pitti

Joanna of Austria Painting (with Filippo) Uffizi

Bianca Capello Painting Bronzino Pitti

Eleonora (daughter of Francesco I) Painting Pulzoni Pitti

Ferdinando I Painting Alessandro Allori Pitti

Christine of Lorraine Painting Scipione Pulsone di Gaeta Medici-Riccardi Palace

Christine of Lorraine Painting ( aet 55 ) Sustermans Corsini Gallery

Claudia (daughter of Ferdinando I) Painting Sustermans Uffizi

Cosimo II Painting ( aet 12) Sustermans Poggio a Caiano

Cosimo II Painting Sustermans Corsini Gallery

Cosimo II Painting Sustermans Uffizi

Maria Maddalena Painting Sustermans Corsini Gallery

Margherita (daughter of Cosimo II) Painting Sustermans Poggio a Caiano

Francesco (son of Cosimo II) Painting Sustermans Poggio a Caiano

Anna (daughter of Cosimo II) Painting Sustermans Pitti

Ferdinando II Painting ( aet 14 ) Sustermans Pitti

Ferdinando II Painting Sustermans Poggio a Caiano

Mattias Painting Sustermans Pitti

Cardinal Leopoldo Painting Uffizi

Cardinal Leopoldo Bust Uffizi

Vittoria della Rovere Painting (as a young womam) Carlo Dolci Pitti

Victoria della Rovere Painting (in middle age) Carlo Dolci Pitti

Cosimo III Painting (as a canon of the Lateran) Medici-Riccardi Palace

Marguerite Louise Painting Uffizi

Anna Maria Luisa Painting (with Elector Palatine) G. F. Douven Pitti

Anna Maria Luisa Painting (with gun and dogs) G.F. Douven Pitti

Violante Beatrice Painting Uffizi

Gian Gastone Painting Uffizi

Gian Gastone Bust Uffizi

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