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Cosimo's son, Francesco I (1541-1587) was an ineffectual ruler under whom Tuscany languished.
Cosimo's son, Ferdinand II (1610-1670) was just ten years old when he became Grand Duke, and until his majority the government was carried on by the two Grand Duchesses, Cosimo's mother Christina of Lorraine, and Cosimo's wife, Maria Magdalena of Austria, the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.
Cosimo II's wife, Maria Magdalena, was the sister of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
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  Cosimo de' Medici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1433 Cosimo was exiled from Florence by Rinaldo degli Albizzi, but public opinion soon changed, and he returned in 1434, to greatly influence the government of Florence and to lead by example for the rest of his long life.
Cosimo was also noted for his patronage of culture and the arts, liberally spending the family fortune (which his astute business sense considerably increased) to enrich Florence.
In the Constance Concilium Cosimo through his older son, Lorenzo de' Medici tried the political survival of the cismatic pope John XXIII by trying to influence the decisions of the Concilium in favour of John XXIII.
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 Pietro di Cosimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Cosimo de' Medici - tScholars.com
Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (September 27, 1389, Florence – August 1, 1464, Careggi), was the first of the Medici political dynasty, rulers of Florence during most of the Italian Renaissance; also known as "Cosimo 'the Elder'" and "Cosimo Pater Patriae."
In 1433 Cosimo was exiled from Florence by Rinaldo degli Albizzi, but his fortunes soon changed, and he returned in 1434, to ably lead the Republic for the rest of his long life.
On his death in 1464, Cosimo was succeeded by his son Piero 'the Gouty', father of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Cosimo_de%27_Medici   (420 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Medici, Cosimo I de'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
MEDICI, COSIMO I DE' [Medici, Cosimo I de'] 1519-74, duke of Florence (1537-69), grand duke of Tuscany (1569-74); son of Giovanni de' Medici (Giovanni delle Bande Nere).
Cosimo, despite promises to the contrary, assumed absolute authority as soon as he was installed.
Under Cosimo's able, though ruthless, rule Florence reached its highest political importance and material prosperity and almost doubled its territories—notably by the acquisition (1555) of the republic of Siena.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/medicc1.asp   (364 words)

  
 Cosimo Rosselli - LoveToKnow 1911
The first work of Cosimo mentioned by Vasari exists in S. Ambrogio, in Florence, over the third altar on the left.
In the same church, on the wall of one of the chapels, is a fresco by Cosimo which Vasari praises highly, especially for a portrait of the young scholar Pico of Mirandola.
Rosselli's Sistine frescoes were partly painted by his assistant Piero di Cosimo, who was so called after Cosimo Rosselli.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cosimo_Rosselli   (419 words)

  
 Piero di Cosimo
He was Florentine and trained in the studio of Cosimo Rosselli, working as his assistant in painting the frescos in the Sistine Chapel (begun 1481).
Piero Di Cosimo: Fiction, Invention and Fantasia, by Sharon Fermor.
Piero di Cosimo, ou, La forêt sacrilège (L'Atelier du merveilleux), by Alain Jouffroy.
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 The Medici Family
In a political struggle with another powerful family, the Albizzi, Cosimo initially lost and was banished, but because of the support of the people he was soon recalled, in 1434, and the Albizzi were banished in turn.
Cosimo's son, Francesco I (1541-1587) was an ineffectual ruler under whom Tuscany languished.
Figure 6: Cosimo II Cosimo's son, Ferdinand II (1610-1670) was just ten years old when he became Grand Duke, and until his majority the government was carried on by the two Grand Duchesses, Cosimo's mother Christina of Lorraine, and Cosimo's wife, Maria Magdalena of Austria, the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.
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 Piero di Cosimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piero di Cosimo (also known as Piero di Lorenzo) (1462–1521) was an Italian painter.
The son of a Florentine goldsmith, Piero was born in Florence and apprenticed under the artist Cosimo Rosseli, from whom he derived his popular name and whom he assisted in the painting of the Sistine Chapel in 1481.
Piero di Cosimo exercised considerable influence upon his fellow pupils Albertinelli and Bartolomeo della Porta, and was the master of Andrea del Sarto.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piero_di_Cosimo   (785 words)

  
 Three Monkeys Myth, Ritual and Orthodoxy: Cosimo de’ Medici and Saint Peter Martyr.
Cosimo personally bankrolled the construction of a new dormitory, was an executor of the will of the humanist Niccolò Niccoli and thus ensured that a rich collection of texts went to San Marco.
Cosimo was clearly interested in the monastic life; as already mentioned, Cassian's Monastic Institutes was a heavily annotated manuscript of Cosimo's library in 1418 and Cosimo had private cells built for him both in San Marco and the Observant Augustinian Badia in Fiesole.
Cosimo was elected as Gonfaloniere di Giustizia on the 28th December, 1438 and thus was able to welcome the papacy as a civic representative.
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Cosimo, the elder of Giovanni's two sons, consolidated the Cafaggiolo branch of the Medici family, whereas Lorenzo founded the Popolani line.
Cosimo's court was like that of his immediate successors a gathering of artists and scholars, whose works were among the most prized possessions of the family and the city - figures of stature of Donatello, Brunelleschi, Domenico Veneziano; or of Poliziano, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Platina, and Pico della Mirandola.
Cosimo's successor was Piero, later called Piero the Gouty, a shy reserved man given to study, meditation and the cultivation of beauty in its most intelligent forms.
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Cosimo de Medici, or Cosimo the Elder, was born in 1389.
Cosimo's successor, Piero, was less successful than Cosimo, but generally followed his policies and so survived his term leaving Florence much the same as he found it.
Cosimo purged the House of Medici and the city of Florence from the foreign entanglements, and from the interference of his ministers, two areas of control which had been strong since the Savanarolan era.
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 Salviate and the Sala d'Udienze Florence by Raichel Le Goff
Cosimo agreed and Francesco began designs for the stories of Furius Camillus, which are the focus of this discussion.
Even though he was seen as a military figure, Cosimo was also anxious to be seen as an inaugurator of Peace and Salviati has painted a large allegorical figure in grisaille of Peace burning the instruments of war, over the main doorway.
This glorification of Cosimo as an antique hero was given solid form by Bandinelli's recently executed marble bust of Cosimo in the image of a Roman emperor.
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 Cosimo Tura (1430 - 1495) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Piero di Cosimo - Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels c.
Piero di Cosimo - The Nativity with the Infant Saint John c.
Cosimo Rosselli, Italian (Florentine), 1439-1507 The Descent From the Cross Oil and tempera on panel
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 Piero di Cosimo - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Piero di Cosimo, real name Piero di Lorenzo (1462-1521), Italian painter of religious works and imaginative mythological scenes.
Andrea was born Andrea d'Agnolo in Florence on July 16, 1486.
Son of Domenico, Ridolfo studied with the Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo.
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 Piero di Cosimo - Rijksmuseum
When he was around eighteen he worked as an apprentice and pupil at the studio of Cosimo Rosselli.
Towards the end of the 1480s Piero di Cosimo set up as an artist in his own right in Florence.
Piero di Cosimo lived a reclusive life, surviving on a diet of hard-boiled eggs that he cooked in batches of fifty - at least that is what the sixteenth-century artist-biographer Vasari purports.
www.rijksmuseum.nl /aria/aria_artists/00017402?lang=en   (122 words)

  
 DBLP: Cosimo Laneve
Cosimo Laneve, Joachim Parrow, Björn Victor: Solo Diagrams.
Cosimo Laneve, Ugo Montanari: Axiomatizing Permutation Equivalence in the Lambda-Calculus.
Cosimo Laneve, Ugo Montanari: Mobility in the CC-Paradigm.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Laneve:Cosimo.html   (442 words)

  
 Cosimo de' Medici
After the death of his father, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Cosimo and his family were banished (1433) from Florence by a faction headed by the powerful Albizzi family.
Cosimo's claim to greatness, however, rests chiefly on his generosity toward artists and scholars.
Cosimo de' Medici - Cosimo de' Medici: see Medici, Cosimo de'.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0832463.html   (447 words)

  
 Cosimo - Memory Alpha
Cosimo was the owner of a coffee shop in San Francisco.
In an alternate timeline an alien assumed his identity when Harry Kim travelled to an alternate universe.
Cosimo existed in a space time fold and was sent to help Kim find his way back to his original universe.
www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Cosimo   (120 words)

  
 Cosimo Cavallaro
Sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro has transformed a typical suburban house in Powell, Wyoming, into a cheddar-laden dwelling, devoid of any need for stucco tint, wallpaper coordination, or upholstery considerations.
Cosimo's prior experiments in the Art of Whey include a New York hotel room and the accessorizing of a model in a head-to-toe bedecking of formaggio.
Cosimo Cavallaro was born in Montreal in 1961.
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 Cosimo Matassa MP3 Downloads - Cosimo Matassa Music Downloads - Cosimo Matassa Music Videos
As an engineer and proprietor of J&M Studios and Cosimo Recording Studio in New Orleans, Cosimo Matassa was crucial to the development of the New Orleans R&B, rock and soul sound of the '50s and '60s.
He developed what is known as the 'Cosimo Sound' which was strong drums, heavy bass, light piano, heavy guitar and light horn sound and a strong vocal lead.
It got to be known as 'Cosimo's Sound' but it was the musicians' sound because they were playing the music.
www.mp3.com /cosimo-matassa/artists/83396/biography.html   (499 words)

  
 Cosimo’s Trattoria Bar will entice with culinary treats, special drinks
With its gaping ceilings, balconies and windows that look from the outside in, patrons feel as if they are dining outdoors in one of Tuscany’s quaint villages.
For the late-night crowd, a bistro menu is also available and includes a selection of salads, peppercorn-crusted tuna, mozzarella and portobello fries and Cosimo’s famous brick oven pizzas.
The bar, which is usually packed from Thursday to Saturday night, provides a great atmosphere to sit and chat while enjoying food and drinks with friends or a significant other.
cityguide.pojonews.com /fe/Nightspots/stories/ns_cosimos_trattoria_bar.asp   (429 words)

  
 Cosimo Rosselli Online
Cosimo Rosselli at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Cosimo Rosselli in the Web Gallery of Art
All images and text on this Cosimo Rosselli page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/rosselli_cosimo.html   (182 words)

  
 Piero di Cosimo Online
Piero di Cosimo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Piero di Cosimo at the National Gallery, London, UK A Satyr mourning over a Nymph
All images and text on this Piero di Cosimo page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Rosselli, Cosimo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Among his pupils were Piero di Cosimo and Fra Bartolomeo.
There are paintings by Rosselli in the Louvre; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Rosselli, Cosimo" at HighBeam.
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 Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Florentine, 1503-1572) | Artist Index | Timeline of Art History | The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Florentine, 1503-1572)
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Florentine, 1503-1572)
Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), Workshop of Bronzino (Italian, Florentine, 1503–1572), Oil on wood (08.262)
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hi/hi_brag.htm   (60 words)

  
 Tura Cosimo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Tura Cosimo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Medici, Cosimo de' (1389-1464), Italian banker and statesman.
Known as Cosimo the Elder, he succeeded his father, Giovanni, as director of the...
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 Cosimo Fusco Photos - Cosimo Fusco News - Cosimo Fusco Information
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Meanwhile, Dixon's life hangs in the balance after he is shot on a mission, and Will realizes that his discovery of Kate Jones' pin could uncover some unexpected information.
Tell the world what you think of Cosimo Fusco, write a review for this person.
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 Piero di Cosimo
He adopted the name of his master, Cosimo Rosselli, whom he accompanied to Rome in 1482 and assisted in the decorating of the Sistine Chapel.
His religious works have charm, but more important are his animated mythological scenes.
Cosimo Rosselli - Rosselli, Cosimo, 1439–1507, Florentine painter.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cosimo Rosselli
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One is, therefore, more easily able to understand Vasari's comment upon them, because there must have been some reason to account for Rosselli being given so many panels.
reputation rests more securely on his close friendship with Benozzo Gozzoli and on the fact that amongst his pupils were Fra Bartolommeo and Piero di Cosimo.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13203b.htm   (225 words)

  
 Cosimo Privato on artnet
Find works of art, auction results & sale prices of artist Cosimo Privato at galleries and auctions worldwide.
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