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The Villa Medici (Italian pronunciation: [ˈvilla ˈmɛːditʃi]) is a sixteenth-century Italian Mannerist [1] villa and an architectural complex with 7-hectare Italian garden, contiguous with the more extensive Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in the historic centre of Rome, Italy.
The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a 15th-century Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It was built for the Medici family , who dominated the politics of the Republic of Florence .
Palazzo Lante, also known as either Palazzo Medici Lante or Medici Lante della Rovere, is a Renaissance-style aristocratic palace located on Piazza Dei Caprettari #72, near the church of Sant'Eustachio in the rione named after the church in central Rome, Italy. Presently the palace houses both the offices of the national Institute of Nuclear ...
Magi Chapel. The Magi Chapel is a chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi of Florence, Italy.Its walls are almost entirely covered by a famous cycle of frescoes by the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli, painted around 1459 for the Medici family, the effective rulers of Florence.
The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee; [4] Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century.
In 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte moved it to the Villa Medici, with the intention of perpetuating an institution once threatened by the French Revolution and, thus, of retaining for young French artists the opportunity to see and copy the masterpieces of the Antiquity or the Renaissance and send back to Paris their "envois de Rome", the results of ...