AT the onset, let me declare that I am personally not in favor of family political dynasties. I hate to see immense wealth ...

Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici (1416–1469) organized his by color, in an age when readers had to bind their own books: “blue for theology, yellow for grammar, violet for poetry, red for history ...

These reveal a sense of a younger generation learning from another, a sense also extended back in time through the inclusion of Piero di Cosimo’s ‘The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the ...

Cosimo de' Medici, the politically astute head of a powerful banking family, had become Florence's de facto ruler in 1434.

View Manuzio, Vita di Cosimo de Medici, Bologna, Aldo II, 1586, Roman red morocco, ca. 1586, by Vatican Bindery, large paper copy on artnet. Browse more upcoming and past Decorative Art auction lots.

View Manuzio, Vita di Cosimo de Medici, Bologna, Aldo II, 1586, nineteenth-century half calf, large paper copy on artnet. Browse more upcoming and past Decorative Art auction lots.

Another major fan was Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, who was the head of the Medici banking family and, following the assassination of his brother Giuliano, de facto ruler of the Florentine ...

Lorenza de’ Medici di Ottajano was born on July 17, 1926, in Milan to Fanny (Custer) de’ Medici di Ottajano, who came from a wealthy Swiss banking family, and Paolo de’ Medici di Ottajano ...

Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici (1416 - 1469). He was the de facto ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance. Halftone print based on a photograf of a marble bust (1453) by Mino ...

The Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) was an eccentric character, choosing to live in squalor and eat nothing but boiled eggs (according to Vasari’s biography,he cooked 50 eggs at a ...