#de'Medici

[jacopocioni]

Ubaldino Peruzzi de' Medici

Ubaldino Peruzzi de' Medici nasce a Firenze il 2 aprile 1822, figlio di Vincenzo Peruzzi, gonfaloniere di Firenze e di Enrichetta Torrigiani. Discendente della famiglia Peruzzi che si era imparentata con la famiglia Medici alla fine del XVIII con il matrimonio tra Bindo Simone (il nonno) e Maria Luisa de' Medici ultima erede della famiglia Medici. La casa dei Peruzzi, posizionata in Borgo dei Greci, sorge sul luogo anticamente occupato da un orto di proprietà dei Peruzzi e su alcune case edificate a loro volta sui resti dell'anfiteatro romano di Firenze. Un'altra dimora dei Peruzzi, la preferita da Ubaldino, è la villa dell'Antella sulle colline fiorentine nel Comune di Bagno a Ripoli. Gli studi per Ubaldino cominciarono nel 1828 presso una scuola privata per poi proseguire presso il collegio Cicognini di Prato. Nove anni dopo, nel 1837, il granduca concesse l'ammissione al collegio Tolomei di Siena, luogo dove studiavano i figli della nobiltà toscana. Conseguì la laurea in tre anni diventando dottore in legge nel 1840. Lo zio paterno, Simone Peruzzi, insistette molto e convince il padre di Ubaldino ad affiancarlo a lui presso Parigi dove lo zio era in affari presso il re di Francia. Ubaldino nel periodo parigino frequentò la École des mines dove conseguì un diploma in ingegneria mineraria nel maggio 1843.

Grazie a questa formazione, al suo rientro a Firenze, diversificò i suoi investimenti in nuovi settori come quello ferroviario, assicurativo e ovviamente minerario. Nel dicembre 1847, alla morte del padre ed entusiasta delle riforme di Pio IX, si lega alla realizzazione dell'ordinamento della guardia civica meritandosi nel 1848 un pubblico ringraziamento dal Municipio Fiorentino. La sua visibilità fu accresciuta anche  dall'essere diventato, nel 1848, capo della commissione incaricata di trattare il rientro dall’Austria dei prigionieri toscani. Eletto nel 1948, nel nuovo Parlamento costituzionale sostituì come gonfaloniere il cugino Bettino Ricasoli. Se pur affetto da Vaiolo contribuì al colpo di Stato del 12 aprile 1849 e a stendere il successivo proclama con cui il Comune di Firenze assumeva i pieni poteri in nome del principe, rientrò poi nel suo ruolo di gonfaloniere.

Si sposò, il 9 settembre 1849  con Emilia Toscanelli, nata a Pisa, e conosciuta nel salotto di Carlotta Marchesini Torrigiani. Grazie ad Emilia si istaurò a Firenze un grande salotto culturale conosciuto come il «salotto rosso» frequentato da una miriade di personaggi a partire da Edmondo De Amicis per finire con Cesare Alfieri. Mentre la moglie "creava" relazioni interpersonali il marito Ubaldino si dedica alla vita politica albergando tra i moderati; negli anni che seguirono l'Unità d'Italia si affermò nella vita politica nazionale.

Il 27 aprile 1859 entrò nel Governo provvisorio della Toscana, dopo la definitiva partenza di Leopoldo II, dove fu nominato capo del governo provvisorio toscano. A livello nazionale divenne, nel 1860, deputato e lo rimase per dieci legislature in rappresentanza del primo collegio di Firenze. Fu Ministro dei lavori pubblici con il terzo Governo Cavour mantenendo la carica con il successivo Governo Ricasoli e poi Ministro dell'interno nel Governo Minghetti.

Nel 1865 entrò nel Consiglio provinciale Toscano, divenne, dal 1865 al 1870, Presidente della Provincia Fiorentina per poi divenire Sindaco di Firenze per 8 anni fino al 1878. Durante la sua attività di Sindaco, nel 1876, contribuì alla fondazione del Collegio degli Architetti e Ingegneri in Firenze di cui fu nominato Presidente Onorario. Furono suoi i grandiosi progetti di espansione edilizia della città di Firenze rappresentati ed eseguiti poi dal piano Poggi. Ritiratosi a vita privata nella villa dell'Antella vi mori il 9 settembre 1891.

Jacopo Cioni Gran Cerusico Read the full article

#de'Medici #Firenze #JacopoCioni #personaggio #politico #storia #UbaldinoPeruzzi

[esperimentox]

https://www.ohga.it/il-segreto-nascosto-allinterno-del-colosso-dellappennino-la-statua-meta-uomo-meta-montagna/p9/

#Giambologna #Colosso dell'Appennino #Pratolino #Firenze #De'Medici #Ohga!

[te-nebre]

Медичи

— Я удивляюсь! В этом мальчике есть частичка Джулиано! — Чего ты хочешь? — Я не могу больше писать усопших в Лоджии. Прости, Лоренцо. Джулиано был полон жизни. Давай почтим его память, оставив смерть в прошлом. — Нет, этому не бывать. Твоя работа ва��на. — Потому что она наводит страх?! Учит людей бояться тебя? — Хватит. Закончи работу, которую я тебе дал.

#medici #medici the magnificient #sandro botticelli #Sebastian De Souza #Lorenzo de'Medici #Daniel Sharman #roleplay #search

[tragediambulante]

Portrait of Cosimo I de'Medici, Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), about 1538

#art history #art #italian art #painting #aesthethic #pontormo #manierismo #rinascimento #portrait #medici #cosimo de medici #cosimo I de'medici #firenze #fashion history #menswear #hats #16th century #tuscany #florence

[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This week’s publishers’ binding is our 1906 copy of The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself, published by Brentano’s in New York. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, author, and murderer. His life seems to have been very interesting, with multiple murders (including the murder of his brother’s killer and the murder of a rival) and other issues that got him in trouble with the law. Definitely worth a read of the ol’ Wikipedia page. His biography was begun in 1558 and finished in 1563. 

The binding is quite a nice one, in red bookcloth with gold filigree on the front cover and spine, and a decorative gold circle with the initials B.C. on the back cover. The book is illustrated mainly with portraits and busts, the most interesting to me being the one of Lorenzo de’Medici featured here, with strange, demonic-looking heads in the background. 

View more Publishers’ Binding Thursday posts.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager 

#Publishers' Binding Thursday #The Life of Benvenuto Cellini #Wikipedia #Benvenuto Cellini #publishers' bindings #Medici #Lorenzo de'Medici #autobiographies #Brentano's

[diana9241livejournalcom]

hisChapters: 1/1 Fandom: I Medici | Medici: Masters of Florence (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici | Pope Clement VII&Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici Characters: Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici | Pope Clement VII, Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici | Pope Leo X, Angelo "Poliziano" Ambrogini Additional Tags: Season/Series 03, Missing Scene, Historical Accuracy, Bullying, Period Typical Attitudes Summary:

Odiava quella situazione.

For @historical-epic

#medici master of florence #fanfic #my fanfiction #piero de'medici #request

[allwaysfull]

Italy: The Beautiful Cookbook | Lorenza de'Medici

#Italy #italy the beautiful cookbook #beautiful #beautiful cookbook #lorenza de'medici #italian

[snailspng]

Random PNGs, part 154.

(1. Shell cross lamp, 2. Still life from ca. 1640, 3. "Mycoplasma Altar" by Sharona Franklin, 4. "Aurora" by William Jacob Baer, 5. Jelly from Gucci Cruise 20, 6. Angel sylvanian, 7. Art jelly by Sharona Franklin, 8. Pearl cradle that was owned by Anna Maria de'Medici, 9. Carnelian Medusa intaglio.)

#png #pngs #transparent #moodboard #artboard #imageboard #sticker #stickers #collage #polyvore #shoplook

[tozettastone]

Ah, I'm sure I've said this before, but for a fantasy writer, writing bankers as big-nosed greedy nonhumans always seems like such a missed opportunity. I'm glad it mostly seems to be a product of the long 20th century.

One could just as easily take one's banking inspo from the larger-than-life Medici family with all its wild dramas (assassinations! four popes! slow underminings of the republic! Savonarola may or may not have refused Lorenzo de'Medici the last rites!) and intrigues.

The Medici family were very Catholic and the way of making money in charging interest on loans was a sin (usury), which delivers one the easy potential for a much more complex relationship with greed than "well... we like gold." This also complicated their relationship with all the religious art and buildings and stuff they commissioned. (It's okay to commit sins, if you can donate them away.)

Your bankers could be cutthroat "apolitical" "first citizens" with boatloads of money who give to the poor (while creating the poor) and produce enormous numbers of of iconic artworks to uplift the local religion and embrace public life as gentlefolk.

They could be clicking their tongues and shaking their heads and saying, "Oh, I can't help that! Aren't we all just private citizens under popular government?" while half the government is related to them and the other half owes them favours.

Even if one's story isn't about these guys, it would be great fun to have them swanning about in the background. Definitely if I'm ever writing my own old school fantasy story that's the inspiration I want to draw from.

#fantasy bankers

[feytouched]

call me de'medici but i think art patronage is a forgotten source of joy nowadays. like i can make art myself but there is something special in the collaborative process of bringing my ideas to someone else and seeing how they interpret them into a tangible form. i'm talking about visual art but also other stuff! like music, clothes, perfume... there are artists out there for everything you might think of

#ką sako lapė

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

1500 – Benvenuto Cellini (d.1571), sculptor, goldsmith, memoirist, and flamboyant pederast, is one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art. He was the last of the great Renaissance artists, for the free exploration and celebration of the sensual (particularly the homoeroticism) that inspired his genius and was a hallmark of Renaissance Florentine culture were soon aborted.

Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence at the peak of the Italian Renaissance. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he excelled in that art. In fact, he was so successful that he was called upon to fulfill major commissions throughout Italy and France. Indeed, he traveled so much that until he was forty-five years old, he never lived longer than five years in any one place. The reasons for his sometimes abrupt departures ranged from political upheavals and plague to outbursts of temperament, including murder.

At nineteen, Cellini went to Rome, where over the years he worked for Popes Clement VII and Paul III. In 1536, he traveled to France, where he sculpted decorations for the palace at Fontainebleau. In 1545, Cellini returned to Florence, where he lived the rest of his life.

Florence was notorious in the Renaissance as "Sodom City": in German slang, "Florenzer" meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities on suspicion of sodomy by the time they were thirty. In 1432, the "Office of the Night" was created to eliminate sodomy, but after seventy years it was disbanded as the task was deemed hopeless. About ninety percent of the cases reported involved boys under the age of eighteen. Sexual activity between men and boys was an integral feature of Florentine culture in the sixteenth century.

Cellini himself was convicted of homosexual sodomy with a boy named Domenico in Florence in 1523 and fined 12 bags of flour. He was prosecuted but absolved of charges of heterosexual sodomy in France. In Florence, Cellini was supported by his appreciative patron Duke Cosimo I de'Medici. Cosimo's first commission was for a large bronze Perseus holding Medusa's severed head. This magnificent nude figure in the Piazza della Signoria is a gay icon for its depiction of a beautiful young man.

Perseus

Cellini's subsequent works, including the marble statues of Ganymede and the Eagle, Narcissus, and Apollo and Hyacinth are particularly appealing to men who love boys. In Ganymede and the Eagle, the young Trojan boy lovingly ruffles the neck feathers of his seducer, while in Apollo and Hyacinth, the mature Apollo ruffles the tousled curls of an expectantly receptive Hyacinth, on his knees at the god's feet.

The homoerotic spirit that nourished Cellini's art was soon to be crushed in Florence. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent (1545-1563) adopted policies designed to make the Church even more austere than the Protestants. It also embarked on a campaign to crush heresy. It established the Index of Prohibited Books and it proscribed carnality in art. In 1559, Pope Paul IV ordered draperies painted on the nudes in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. The Council's decrees were enthusiastically enforced through the sadistic power of the Inquisition.

In this context, in 1557, when his apprentice Fernando di Giovanni di Montepulciano accused Cellini of having sodomised him many times, the penalty was a hefty fifty golden scudi fine, and four years of prison, remitted to four years of house arrest thanks to the intercession of Duke Cosimo.

During his years of house arrest, Cellini attempted to rehabilitate his reputation. Not only did he devote himself to religious art (including a deeply religious marble crucifix), but he also took minor holy orders and fathered a son in 1560 by his servant Piera, whom he married in 1563.

Most importantly, however, during his period of house arrest, Cellini began his celebrated Vita. In this autobiography, the artist recounts his acquaintanceships with princes and popes and his great achievements as sculptor and goldsmith, while disavowing, with wounded innocence, his reputation as a pederast. He implies that he is a ladies' man, but cannot resist bragging that once he took his apprentice Diego in drag to a party of artists and their whores. The boy was voted the most beautiful prostitute in Florence, which nearly caused a riot when one of the girls groped Diego and discovered the truth of his sex.

Although the Vita attempts to present an appearance of orthodox morality and fails to mention Cellini's gay affairs or his convictions for sodomy, it nevertheless repays interest for its homosexual content. Especially significant in this context is Chapter 71 of Book Two, which may be read as a defense of sodomy, that "noble practice" indulged in by "the greatest emperors and the greatest kings of the world." Cellini says that he lacks the knowledge or means to meddle in the "noble practice," but he nevertheless commends it as "a marvelous matter." Whether these passages can be taken seriously or in jest is a matter of debate; certainly the context in which he was writing—under house arrest for having had sex with a young man—is an important consideration in interpreting the autobiography.

1846 – (Francis Davis) Frank Millet was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.

Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a surgical assistant (helping his father, a surgeon) in the American Civil War. He repeatedly pointed to his experience working for his father as giving him an appreciation for the vivid blood red that he repeatedly used in his early paintings. He graduated from Harvard with a Master of Arts degree. He worked as a reporter and editor for the Boston Courier and then as a correspondent for the Advertiser at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

Millet had a studio in Rome in the early 1870s, and Venice in the mid-1870s, where he lived with Charles Warren Stoddard, a well-known American travel journalist who, evidence indicates, had an active sexual interest in men. Historian Jonathan Ned Katz presents letters from Millet to Stoddard that suggest they had a romantic and intimate affair while living a bohemian life together.

A well-regarded American Academic Classicist, Millet was close friends with Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Mark Twain, both of whom were present at his 1879 marriage to Elizabeth Merrill in Paris, France; Twain was his best man. He was also well acquainted with the impressionist artist John Singer Sargent, who often used Millet's daughter Kate as a model, as well as the esteemed Huxley family.

Millet became a member of the Society of American Artists in 1880, and in 1885 was elected as a member of the National Academy of Design, New York and as Vice-Chairman of the Fine Arts Committee. He was made a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and sat on the advisory committee of the National Gallery of Art. He was decorations director for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where he is credited with having invented the first form of spray paint. His career included work with a number of worlds' fairs, including Vienna, Chicago, Paris, and Tokyo, where he made contributions as a juror, administrator, mural painter/decorator, or adviser.

Millet lived with  Archibald Butt, who called him "my artist friend who lives with me", in a large mansion at 2000 G Street NW. They were known for throwing spartan but large parties that were attended by members of Congress, justices of the Supreme Court, and President Taft himself. There is some speculation that Butt and Millet were lovers.

Historian Richard Davenport-Hines wrote in 2012: "The enduring partnership of Butt and Millet was an early case of "Don't ask, don't tell". Washington insiders tried not to focus to closely on the men's relationship, but they recognized their mutual affection, and they were together in death as in life."

On April 10, 1912, Millet boarded the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg, France, bound for New York City. He was traveling with long-time friend Archibald Butt. He was last seen helping women and children into lifeboats. His body was recovered after the sinking by the cable boat Mackay-Bennett and returned to East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he was buried in Central Cemetery.

In 1913, the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain was erected in Washington, D.C., in memory of Millet and his long-time friend and lover Archibald Butt, with whom he shared a home, and who also died on the Titanic.

1952 – David Ho, HIV-AIDS researcher, was born on this date; a Taiwan-born American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team. Ho devised the method of treating HIV with "cocktails". He theorized that combining the powerful protease inhibitor drugs with other HIV medications would provide a more effective way to treat the disease.

Ho is married to artist Susan Kuo, with whom he has three children. Many of us owe our lives to his work.

1983 – The Hawaii Supreme Court rules that the state's broadly worded privacy amendment to the state constitution does not protect sodomy as a right.

1983 – US Senator John Glenn, former astronaut, told the National Gay Task Force that he does not support gay rights legislation and will not do anything which might be considered advocacy or promotion of homosexuality. He would later add that GLB people should not be allowed to teach or join the military.

2006 – On this date "Doogie Howser, MD" and "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris came out as a "content Gay man." His career has simply soared!

[joseandrestabarnia]

Agnolo di Cosimo conocido como BRONZINO (Florencia 1503-1572) Retrato de una joven con un libro (¿Giulia de Alessandro de'Medici?) 1548-1550 Óleo sobre tabla Inv. 1890 n. 770

El esquema del retrato es el mismo que utiliza Bronzino para toda la serie de los jóvenes Medici: el busto se muestra entero y el corte frontal hierático que subraya el linaje. El vestido sigue la rígida y lujosa moda española introducida en la Corte por la Gran Duquesa Leonora, pero la franqueza de su mirada y la expresión seria revelan el carácter de la adolescente, ciertamente estimulada por la lectura, como indica el libro que tiene entre manos: tal vez se trate de Giulia, huérfana del duque Alejandro, que creció en la familia de Cosme I de 'Medici y se casó en 1550 - a los quince años - con Francesco Cantelmi, duque de Popoli.

Información de la Gallerie degli Uffizi, fotografía de mi autoría.

#art #pintura #renacimiento

[hornyforpoetry]

Tomb of Giuliano de'Medici in San Lorenzo Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti // Florence, Italy

#michelangelo buonarroti #michelangelo #artwork #artistic #art history #art #baroque sculpture #sculpting #sculpture #san lorenzo #san lorenzo chapel #de medici family #florence #italy #tomb #day and night #art museum #museum photography #art academia aesthetic #art academia #classic academia #dark academia #academia #academics #light academia #classic academia aesthetic #classical academia #darkest academics #darkest academia #dark academia aesthetic

[destiniesfm]

{adjoa andoh, 59, cis woman, she/her} We are so glad to see you safe, [THE ROYAL ADVISOR] [CLEOTHA SOLOMAN] of [ETHIOPIA]! It’s dangerous out in the world these days, but I hear that you are [INGENIOUS] and [CREATIVE] enough to handle it. Just don’t let your [SHARP-TONGUED NATURE] bring you down! Stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out [ YOU MURDERED YOUR BEST FRIEND'S HUSBAND ].

Cleotha:

She's a very far-sighted advisor and can see the benefits of maintaining amicable diplomatic relations with powerful empires such as the mughal one but she is also a very blunt person XD

Her personality is greatly inspired by lady danbury in the bridgerton novels, a bit of catherine de'medici and a lot of olenna tyrell from GOT.

She's very sharp-tongued, blunt with dry humour, absolutely unafraid to speak her mind though she knows how to sometimes employ tact on very delicate matters, very shrewd, cunning and always ingenious in her ideas and solutions to problems. Can be a dangerous woman to cross as she has a lot of resources and connections at her disposal and she can be vicious to those who have wronged her loved ones. ( cue the time she unalived her bestie's husband bcos he was abusing her ).

She also has a love for fashion and is iconic for creating her own trendsetting outfits.

She is also the aunt to the current king of ethiopia as she was his father's younger sister and thus currently still retains the title of princess and the honorific of "your highness".

However some who has known her when she was married to a duke in England and is now dowager duchess ( her son is the current duke and a wc! ) may refer to her as "your grace".

She very dearly loves all of her family members and is a very present figure in their lives though she does hand out tough love sometimes, especially more so now that they are all adults who should be wiser figures XD

#muse: the astute #theopulent.intro

[diana9241livejournalcom]

omg wait so apparently George did sa someone?? what was his ‘relationship’ to Anne? I’m honestly curious if the show is going to include this. In all seriousness though, I don’t think they would. A lot of people have already seen George as just a victim (which in a sense yes because his mother groomed him to use his looks and seduce people to gain power and the fact that the king is 2x his age) but he also doesn’t come off across as completely innocent compared to everyone even though he might not. Im hoping people realize that this show isn’t exactly about ‘romance’ and ship George with people that he’s seducing because I’ve already seen many people just looking forward to mostly the sex part of the story. It also makes sense that they might not include the fact that George attempted to sa Anne in the show because Nicholas is playing him and will make us feel more sympathetic towards George and make King James out to be the bad guy. Honestly it’s kind of sad if they did do that (hopefully not) because the King seems like he’s been through so many traumatic experiences and add on to the fact that he’s insecure about his appearance, has several disabilities (from what I heard), and was desperate to be loved.

I hope I’m not asking to many questions! I’m just really intrigued about it:)

-✨

I don't think they'll show for a simple reason: it happened after the Season Finale.

the last episode is titled "war" and it's implied that the war is the Thirty Years' War, who started in 1618 and involved in his first phase Elizabeth Stuart, james's daughter.

The Amiens night happened in 1616 so... it's difficoult to show it, like the spanish escapade.

George&Anne, so...

They met each other in 1622, during tyhe spanish escapade when george and Charles, at time prince of Wales, travelled to Madrid via France. He found her very beautiful and he wrote to James "if the Infanta is beautiful as his sister we will have a beaitufil queen".

Then they see when george arrived in paris to escort Henriette Anne to London and the flirt, innocent for her, not so inncent for him. She even said "he's the the only man that I can love" but it was a courtley love for her.

The in Amiens he succed to talk with her, alone, thanks to Anne's friend the dutchess of Chevreuse, and... it happened. He tried to kiss her, she refused, he couldn't understand why, he belived " a no is a yes" 'cause no one in over 10 years had dare say no to him, so he continued.

She refused, she fell and he was on top of her, pants down and trying to lift her skirt when her ladies in witing and her butler, found them.

the next day he tried to apologise but the queen mother Marie de'Medici ordred that her daughter had to leave immediatley and never be alone with hime, she and Anne returned to Paris the same day

George was a victim and a culprint too, and this episode really showed that. H was a victim 'cause for 10 years he was spiled by the court, by the prince of wales and by the king so he never heard a no, and he was a culprit 'cause he tried to rape a queen 'cause he cannot understand why a woman could reject him

#mary & george #mary and george #george villiers #queen anne of austria #anne of austria #james i #james vi #james vi and i

[jadeseadragon]

Alessandro Allori [a.k.a. Alessandro di Christofano di Lorenzo Allori; Il Bronzino; Alessandro del Bronzino; Alessandro Bronzino Allori (1535-1607), Eleonora ('Dianora') di Don Garzia di Toledo di Pietro de'Medici (1553 -1576), circa 1571.

"Leonora was born in Florence, where she was brought up by Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife Eleanor of Toledo, her aunt and namesake. Betrothed to their son Pietro at the age of 15, she blossomed under the wing of Pietro's older sister, the artistic patron Isabella, into a vivacious and witty beauty. Her marriage, like Isabella's, was not a success, and she followed her mentor's example of taking lovers. For this reason, Pietro had her brought in 1576 to the country retreat of Cafaggiolo, where he strangled her to death with a dog leash. Cosimo's successor, Francesco I, tacitly approved the murder, and Pietro was never brought to justice for it." [source]

#alessandro allori #il bronzino #bronzino #alessandro di christofano di lorenzo allori