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Jun 29, 2024 · Ferdinando I de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany. Who increased the number of rooms in the museum, doubled the ancient wealth. and added many cups in cut gems. Thanks to his wealth. the marble Niobe with her sons, the combat of boxers, the statue of the youth sharpening his tool on a whetstone, the bas-relief krater with the story of Iphigenia,
Jun 20, 2024 · Cosimo de’ Medici (1519–74), great-great-grandson of Lorenzo, became duke of Florence, then grand duke of Tuscany (1569), and reigned as Cosimo I. He established a new dynasty that perpetuated the family’s traditional regard for the arts and sciences. The descendants of Cosimo I, who ruled over Florence and Tuscany as grand dukes into the ...
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3 days ago · He married Maria Maddalena of Austria, with whom he had his eight children, including Margherita de' Medici, Ferdinando II de' Medici, and an Anna de' Medici. He is most remembered as the patron of astronomer Galileo Galilei , whose 1610 treatise, Sidereus Nuncius , was dedicated to him. [32]
Jun 29, 2024 · Grand Duke Ferdinando I de’ Medici commissioned Bernardino Poccetti to decorate this Hall thus carrying out an authentic political and cultural manifesto for his reign, which took as example the spectacular ‘Hall of the 500’ in Palazzo Vecchio realized under the commission of his father Cosimo I.
Jul 5, 2024 · Its name refers to the cardinal Ferdinando de’ Medici (1549-1609), who acquired the villa and commissioned the Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammannati to transform it into a palace worthy...
Jun 29, 2024 · Arrange your visit to Florence, find prices and opening hours of the museum. This work, a masterpiece from the Florentine workshops under the rule of Ferdinando I de’ Medici, shows a spectacular view of the Piazza Granducale (now the Piazza della Signoria).
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3 days ago · Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. [1] [2] Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy ...
