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The Great Council of Venice, the Gherardinis of Florence became members of the Venetian patriciate in 1652. The family took part in Florence's political life between 1100 and 1300. In 1300, they were exiled from the city when Florence began its transformation into a Signoria, later ruled by the Medicis.
Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; June 15, 1479 – July 14, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.
Gherardini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gherardini family of Montagliari, aristocratic family of Florence; Alessandro Gherardini (1655–1723), Italian painter of Baroque Florence
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Oasisamerica cultural areas, circa 1350. Oasisamerica is a cultural region of Indigenous peoples in North America.Their precontact cultures were predominantly agrarian, [1] in contrast with neighboring tribes to the south in Aridoamerica. [2]
Amazonia: country located somewhere in northern South America, used as a fictional location in a movie script, mentioned in the novel Shooting Script by Gavin Lyall; Andes Mallorca: South American country in the computer game Strike Commander roughly resembling real-world Colombia; Aquilea: South American country in the film Les Trottoirs de ...
Alessandro Gherardini (16 November 1655 – 1726 [1]) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence.. Alessandro Gherardini, Saint Jerome as penitent.
Born in Milan in 1607, Gherardini was closely linked in his artistic career to Giovan Battista Crespi, known as Cerano, his master and father-in-law.On Cerano's death, he inherited his workshop and house, where he is documented as resident with his wife from 1633 on.