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	Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (1463 - May 20, 1503), son of Pierfrancesco di Lorenzo de' Medici (the Elder).
		He is known principally for having commissioned from Botticelli the Allegory of Spring and The Birth of Venus, the latter one of the most famous paintings of the Renaissance.
		His grandson Lorenzino de' Medici was the assassin of Alessandro de' Medici (the Moor), the last ruler of Florence from the "senior" branch of the Medici, thereby passing power to Lorenzo's great-grandson Cosimo I de' Medici.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/l/lo/lorenzo_di_pierfrancesco_de__medici.html (167 words)

	House of Medici
		Born 1389, died 1 August, 1464, the founder of their power and so-called "Padre della Patria", was the son of Giovanni di Averardo de' Medici, the richest banker in Italy.
		Henceforth until his death Lorenzo was undisputed master of Florence and her dominions, and, while continuing and developing the foreign and domestic policy of his grandfather, he greatly extended the Medicean influence throughout Italy.
		Posterity has agreed to call Lorenzo "the Magnificent", but this is, in part, a misunderstanding of the Italian title "magnifico", which was given to all the members of his family, and, indeed, during the fifteenth century, applied to most persons of importance in Italy to whom the higher title of "Excellence" did not pertain.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/medici,house_of.html (1447 words)

	Sandro Botticelli - LoveToKnow Watches
		SANDRO BOTTICELLI, properly Alessandro Di Mariano Dei Filipepi (1444-1510), Florentine painter, was born at Florence in 1444, in a house in the Via Nuova, Borg' Ognissanti.
		The death of Lorenzo Il Magnifico in 1492, and the accession to chief power of his worthless son Piero, soon plunged Florence into political troubles, to which were by and by added the profound spiritual agitation consequent upon the preaching and influence of Savonarola.
		At least there is clear evidence of his being in the confidence and employ of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco so late as 1496 and 1497, which he could not possibly have been had he then been an avowed member of the party of the Piagnoni.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sandro_Botticelli (2486 words)

	Cosimo de' Medici
		Though Lorenzo was only 20 at the time, therefore, the leading families in Florence were prepared to rally behind his family's reputation and his own wealth rather than return to the free-for-all factionalism that had ruined so many fortunes and reputations in the past.
		Lorenzo's role as the magician who conjured up the talents that contributed to the intellectual and artistic image of Florence in the late Quattrocento can be assessed briefly.
		It was his cousin Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici who obtained Primavera and The Birth of Venus from Botticelli, his business associates who paid Ghirlandaio for the fresco cycles in S. Trinita and S. Maria Novella.
	sstefan680.tripod.com /italy/cosimo.html (722 words)

	Michelangelo
		Lorenzo's son Piero de Medici inherited the position but not the qualities of his father; Florence soon chafed under his authority; and towards the autumn of 1494 it became apparent that disaster was impending over him and his adherents.
		For the supply of materials for the façade of San Lorenzo he had set a firm of masons to work, and had himself, it seems, entered into a kind of partnership with them, at Carrara, where he knew the quarries well, and where the industry was hereditary and well understood.
		In that of Lorenzo seems to be typified the mood of crafty brooding and concentrated inward thought; in that of Giuliano, the type of alert and confident practical survey immediately preceding action.
	www.nndb.com /people/977/000024905 (8571 words)

	The Birth of Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This large picture by Botticelli may have been, like the "Allegory of Spring", painted for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco's Villa di Castello, around 1483, or even before.
		Some scholars suggest that the Venus painted for di Pierfrancesco and mentioned by Giorgio Vasari may have been a different, now lost, work than the painting in the Uffizi.
		Some experts believe it to be a celebration of the love of Giuliano di Piero de' Medici (who died in the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478) for Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, who lived in Portovenere, a place by the sea.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/t/th/the_birth_of_venus.html (589 words)

	Three Worlds of Michelangelo
		Lorenzo himself was wont to join in, singing with "divine furor," according to one witness.
		Lorenzo's gardens, where Michelangelo had thrived, were sold to the rulers of Bologna, the Bentivoglio, in order to raise cash for Piero's expenses and to protect the family possessions from possible confiscation.
		Lorenzo saw to it that Lodovico Buonarroti would obtain decent compensation for the boy's services, totaling 24 florins over three years: the first year 6, the second 8, and the third 10, the equivalent of the rental of a modest studio for that length of time.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/beck-michelangelo.html (3284 words)

	Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (1463 – May 20, 1503), the Popolano, son of Pierfrancesco de' Medici (the Elder).
		His grandson Lorenzino de' Medici was the assassin of Alessandro de' Medici, the last ruler of Florence from the "senior" branch of the Medici, thereby passing power to Lorenzo's great-grandson Cosimo I de' Medici.
		This page was last modified 11:01, 8 July 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorenzo_di_Pierfrancesco_de'_Medici (194 words)

	Jana Stoughton
		Lorenzo “personified the Renaissance spirit and devotion to the joys of Greek and Roman culture.
		Lorenzo was the “archetype of the Renaissance man” (Mee 138).
		Lorenzo was impressed by the sculpture but teased the young Michelangelo by pointing out that old creature wouldn't have had a full set of teeth.
	web.pdx.edu /~jans/Thesis.htm (3151 words)

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		His whole connection with Lorenzo, from the spring of 1489 to the spring of 1492, lasted three years; and, since he was born in March 1475, the space of his life covered by this patronage extended from the commencement of his fifteenth to the commencement of his eighteenth year.
		Lorenzo de' Medici appeared to him barely clad in one fl tattered robe, and bade him relate to his son Piero that he would soon be expelled and never more return to his home.
		Last night Lorenzo had again appeared to him in the same garb of woe; and while he was awake and gazing with his eyes, the spectre dealt him a blow on the cheek, to punish him for omitting to report his vision to Piero.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/11242/11242-8.txt (18003 words)

	World Art Treasures:Sandro Botticelli
		We are perfectly aware of the commission's circumstances: Lorenzo the Magnificent gave this work to a person called Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici.
		Lorenzo had just gotten married, and he married a woman with the most beautiful name in the world: Semiramis d'Appiamo.
		Lorenzo the Magnificent wanted the work to be a moral one, as he knew Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco to be sensual, brutal, debauched and violent, and a certain number of his servants had already been dispatched ad patres...
	www.bergerfoundation.ch /Sandro/44paiennes_english.html (712 words)

	aiwaz.net_institute - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He was one of the eight children of the tanner Mariano di Vanni and his wife Smeralda.
		This function was a remain of a gradually vanishing medieval tradition, since the newly born vanishing point of the perspective takes this function of the gaze.
		Piero di Medici capitulated to French king Charles VII and the Medici were expelled from Florence.
	www.aiwaz.net /modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=7 (1468 words)

	Kategorie Medici (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici genannt Lorenzino (kleiner Lorenzo) oder Lorenzaccio (bÃ¶ser Lorenzo) (* 23.
		Lorenzo di Giovanni de Medici (* 1395, † 23.
		Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (* 1463, &dagger; 20.
	www.infos-lexikon.de /k_Medici.html (490 words)

	Offices Gallery, Florence. Sandro Boticelli.
		Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medicis, the cousin of Lorenzo Magnifico.
		She is surrounded, starting from left, by Mercury, by the group of three Graces who dance in the delicate game of transparencies of their very light veils, by The Spring, who takes the flowers from Flora, followed by Zephyr and at top by Amour who throws his arrows.
		This extraordinary painting was also ordered to Botticelli by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medicis for his villa from Castello.
	www.artonstamps.org /Art-Gallery/Museums/Offices/offices-2.htm (205 words)

	Sandro Botticelli
		The design, inspired by Politian's poem the "Giostra", with reminiscences of Lucretius and of Horace (perhaps also, as has lately been suggested, of the late Latin "Mythologikon" of Fulgentius) thrown in, is of an enchanting fantasy, and breathes the finest and most essential spirit of the early Renaissance at Florence.
		In 1490 Botticelli was called to take part with other artists in a consultation as to the completion of the façade of the Duomo, and to bear a share with Alesso Baldovinetti and others in the mosaic decorations of the chapel of San Zenobio in the same church.
		The death of Lorenzo de Medici in 1492, and the accession to chief power of his worthless son Piero, soon plunged Florence into political troubles, to which were by and by added the profound spiritual agitation consequent upon the preaching and influence of Girolamo Savonarola.
	www.nndb.com /people/734/000084482 (2601 words)

	Notes: Chapter 10
		The dedication to Lorenzo de’ Medici, which we find in surviving manuscript copies and published editions, was a change--probably dating from 1515 or 1516.
		Lorenzo de' Medici, who unsuccessfully sought a marriage with the Spanish king's niece, returned from Rome, came back and had himself named Captain-General of Florence.
		In 1520, Lorenzo Strozzi: At this time, Lorenzo’s brother Filippo Strozzi wrote him: "I am quite pleased that you introduced Machiavelli to the Medici because, should he gain the confidence of the masters, he is a person on the rise" (Machiavelli and His Friends, p.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~rmasters/fourtune/notes/10.html (7046 words)

	Artonline
		Executed for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici, this painting, along with the Allegory of Spring graced the walls of the residence of Lorenzo the Magnificent’s cousins.
		It has been perceived as an allegorical elegy of Lorenzo de’Medici’s diplomatic skills: he had worked hard for peace and had made an alliance with the kingdom of Naples so that it abandoned the anti-Florentine league of Sixtus IV (1480).
		Yet another hypothesis interprets the painting as a variation on the theme of Chastity triumphing over the brutal instincts of Luxury with reference to the marital life of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’Medici who is supposed to have made a gift of this large painting to his wife Semiramide.
	www.artonline.it /eng/opera.asp?IDOpera=272 (272 words)

	ArtLex on the Earlier Renaissance Art
		Paolo Uccello (born Paolo di Dono) (Italian, 1397-1475), Perspective Study of a Chalice, pen and ink on paper, 29 x 24.5 cm, Gabinetto dei Disegni, Uffizi, Florence.
		1485-86, painted for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici at Castello, tempera on canvas, 67 7/8 x 109 5/8 inches (172.5x 278.5 cm), now in the Uffizi, Florence.
		This exceptionally fine frame has a painted lunette by Bartolomeo di Giovanni, who not only collaborated with Botticelli on at least one occasion but copied this picture as well.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/r/renaissance.earlier.html (1046 words)

	Primavera by BOTTICELLI, Sandro
		In 1550, Vasari wrote that a picture which according to him announced the arrival of spring was in the Medici villa in Castello.
		In 1477, the estate was acquired by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, who was a second cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
		This is why it was long assumed that the Primavera (Spring), as the painting continues to be called, was painted for the fourteen year old Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco when the villa was bought.
	www.wga.hu /html/b/botticel/5allegor/10primav.html (605 words)

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		Perhaps it was Botticelli's skill in portraiture that gained him the patronage of the Medici family, and in particular of Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano, who then dominated Florence.
		Lorenzo certainly always favoured Botticelli, as Vasari claims, but even more significant in the painter's career was the lasting friendship and patronage of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, head of the junior Medici line and at first a covert and then from 1494 an open opponent of the senior line.
		The "Primavera," or "Allegory of Spring," and "The Birth of Venus" were painted for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici at Castello.
	emsh.calarts.edu /alumni/bkeresey/calunnia.html (2218 words)

	World Art Treasures : Sandro Botticelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		All the Medicis are descended from the same branch, that of Giovanni de' Medici, the first Gonfalonier of Florence, but who is not part of the adventures of the House of Medici.
		All the Medici family's grandeur was generated by the senior branch, which died out after Lorenzo the Magnificent's grandson died without descendants.
		Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici is from the junior branch which, historically, held the throne the longest.
	www.bonus.com /contour/wordartres/http@@/www.bergerfoundation.ch/Sandro/444medicis_english.html (199 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci, The Man
		A famous Italian navigator, born at Florence, 9 March, 1451; died at Seville, 22 February, 1512; he was the third son of Ser Nastagio, a notary of Florence, son of Amerigo Vespucci.
		When his health was re-established, he wrote an account of his voyage to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici.
		The only precise information concerning her is furnished by the royal decree of 28 March, 1512, according her a pension, on account of the satisfaction given by her husband as piloto mayor, which pension was confirmed by the decree of 16 November, 1523.
	www.sonsofitaly.org /amerigov.html (2337 words)

	MEDICI
		Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici (or "Lorenzo the Magnificent"), who was in power in 1485, was a great patron of artists, poets, and philosophers, including Sandro Botticelli.
		However, he antagonized Pope Sixtus IV who supported an assassination plot against the family in 1478 by the rival Pazzi family.
		Lorenzo survived the attempt and restored order by exterminating his opponents.
	www.pynchon.pomona.edu /v/medici.html (87 words)

	Lonely Castle Art - The History of Art
		Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi was born in Florence in 1445.
		These two works were both commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici and both display the sytle Botticelli was best known for.
		However, in 1492 Lorenzo de'Medici died and his family was forced to flee Florence as the fanatical preacher Savonarola attacked pagan cults, the sort of which the Medici family followed.
	www.lonelycastleart.com /artist.php?id=54 (417 words)

	Sandro Botticelli - Biography
		The son of Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, Alessandro--whose nickname derives from that of his brother Giovanni, called "Botticello" (little barrel)--entered Filippo Lippi's workshop toward the end of the 1450s.
		The mark of Lippi's style is clearly recognizable in Sandro's earliest paintings, works such as the Madonna and Child in the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence and the Madonna and Child with an Angel in the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio.
		In the mid-1460s, perhaps because of Fra Filippo's departure for Spoleto in 1467, the young artist moved into the sphere of Verrocchio, whose style is reflected in another group of Botticelli's early paintings, which attest a more analytical vision, an interest in anatomy, and an attention to gestures that reveal states of mind.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?3200 (713 words)

	Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . Renaissance . Botticelli \| PBS
		Only five years older than Lorenzo de'Medici, by the late 1460s Botticelli had made a name for himself under the apprenticeship of Filippo Lippi, an infamous Medici artist.
		Inspired by Lorenzo's own classical sculptures, Botticelli later took his radical style to a new extreme, with a wedding present for Lorenzo's cousin, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de'Medici.
		Although Botticelli remained close to Lorenzo and was one of the friends who maintained a vigil at his death bed in 1492, Botticelli's own brother had become a disciple of the fiery Savonarola.
	www.pbs.org /empires/medici/renaissance/botticelli.html (682 words)

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