Shortly after Salviati painted his portrait, however, Bindo assumed a publicly anti-Medici stance and in 1554, the family declared him a rebel. Salviati’s depiction of Bindo is The Met’s only ...

A companion portrait depicting Francesco also features ... was the union of the Este dynasty with the Spanish-aligned Medici family. It was initially proposed that Alfonso marry Lucrezia’s ...

Born in 1519 and 1545, respectively, the women were descendants of Lorenzo I de’ Medici, the Florentine ... In The Marriage Portrait, Lucrezia’s looming murder is invoked on the first page ...

By comparison, we know this to be a profile portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence — Bia’s father. In fact, to simplify an enormously tangled family history, Cosimo fathered ...

A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici family to pass through the Italian ... the large collection of the Uffizi's self-portraits, but was closed in 2016 to allow for upgrades ...