18. Galileo’s body was removed from the Novices’ Chapel in Santa Croce in 1737 and reburied on the north side of the west door.
CHAPTER XXII
1. The ORIFICIO DELLE PIETRB DUBE was moved from the Uffizi in 1796 and is now in the Via degli Alfani (no. 78) where craftsmen still work and are trained.
2. The work of GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI may be seen on the east wall of Room IV at the Pitti Palace. Assisted by Baldassare Franceschini, il Volterrano, he also painted the Allegory of the Union of the Houses of Medici and Delia Rovere in the vault. Lorenzo and the Platonic Academy at Careggi and the Allegory of Lorenzo’s death on the north wall are by Francesco Furini. Lorenzo the Magnificent Receives Apollo on the south wall is by Cecco Bravo. Lorenzo surrounded by Artists, between the windows, is by Ottavio Vannini.
3. Among these latest acquisitions were numerous beautiful pieces of sculpture including the Hermaphrodite, the head of Cicero, and the Idolino. Ruben’s Consequences of War was bought by Ferdinando II. Veronese’s Daniele Barbaro, Portrait of a Man and Holy Family with Santa Barbara were in Cardinal Leopoldo’s collection. Raphael’s portrait of Pope Julius II, Titian’s Recumbent Venus, Magdalena, La Bella and Portrait of a Grey-eyed Nobleman, together withPiero della Francesca’s famous portrait of Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and his wife Battista Sforza, were all acquired in 1634 on Ferdinando’s marriage to Vittoria della Rovere.
4. Most of these turned-ivory ornaments were brought back to Florence by Prince Manias de’ Medici from the Castle of Coburg. They are in Room X.
5. The TEATRO DELLA PERGOLA (Via della Pergola, 12) was built by Ferdinando Tacca in 1656. The present building, designed by Bartolommeo Silvestri, is early-nineteenth-century.
6. The Via del Cocomero is now the Via Ricasoli.
7. Gian Carlo’s garden in the Via della Scala, where the members of the Platonic Academy had sometimes held their debates, has now been built over.
8. The enormous, forbidding VILLA AMBSOGIANA was originally built as a hunting lodge. The Grand Duke Cosimo III hung its walls with pictures of rare animals and flowers. It is now a mental hospital.
CHAPTER XXIII
1. The VILLA LAPFEGGI stood for longer than eighteen years, though after the Cardinal’s death the second storey had to be removed for fear that the walls supporting it would fall down into the garden. Its shaky structure was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1895 and will soon, by all appearances, collapse altogether.
CHAPTER XXIV
1. It was left to the despised Lorrainers and the ministers of the Grand Duke Francesco’s energetic son, Pietro Leopoldo, to reform the exhausted and oppressed State, the chaotic legislation and the exploited countryside of Florence which were the social and economic legacy of the later Medici. The splendour of their artistic and cultural legacy – the exuberance and elaborate craftsmanship of Florentine baroque art as triumphantly exemplified by such masters as Cosimo Ill’s sculptor, Giovanni Battista Foggini – has only recently been recognized. The exhibition held in Detroit and at the Pitti Palace in 1974, The Twilight of the Medici’ – which would have made scant appeal to Bernard Berenson – was the first of its kind.
THE PRINCIPAL MEDICI PORTRAITS, BUSTS AND STATUES N FLORENCE
Subject Work Artist Location
Giovanni di Bicci Posthumous painting Bronzino Medici-Riccardi Palace
Giovanni di Bicci Painting Zanobi Strozzi Medici-Riccardi Palace
Cosimo Pater Patriae Posthumous painting Pontormo Uffizi
Cosimo Pater Patriae Painting (being presented with model of San Lorenzo by Brunelleschi) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Lorenzo di Giovanni Posthumous painting Bronzino Uffizi
Piero di Cosimo Bust Mino da Fiesole Bargello
Giovanni di Cosimo Bust Mino da Fiesole Bargello
Lorenzo il Magnifico Posthumous painting Vasari Uffizi
Lorenzo il Magnifico Fresco (with members of the Sassetti family) Ghirlandaio Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinità
Lorenzo il Magnifico Fresco (seated before Cardinal Giovanni) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Lorenzo il Magnifico Painting Florentine school, early fifteenth century Medici-Riccardi Palace
Lorenzo il Magnifico Death mask Medici-Riccardi Palace
Piero Francesco di Lorenzo Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Piero di Lorenzo Painting Bronzino Medici-Riccardi Palace
Piero di Lorenzo Bust Verrocchio Bargello
Giuliano di Lorenzo Fresco (as boy with tutor, Poliziano) Ghirlandaio Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinità
(?) Contessina Bust Donatello Bargello
(?) Fioretta Gorini Painting Botticelli Pitti
Pope Leo X Painting (with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Liugi de’ Rossi Raphael Uffizi
Pope Leo X Fresco (proceeding through Florence) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Pope Leo X Fresco (creating thirty Cardinals) Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Pope Clement VII Painting Bronzino Medici-Riccardi Palace
Duke Alessandro Painting Vasari Medici-Riccardi Palace
Ippolito Painting Titian Pitti
Caterina Painting (aet 21) Poggio a Caiano
Caterina Painting (aet 40) Pourbus Uffizi
Giovanni di Pierfrancesco Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Caterina Sforza Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Giovanni delta Bande Nere Statue Bandinelli Piazza San Lorenzo
Giovanni della Bande Nere Painting Titian Uffizi
Maria Salviati Painting Vasari Palazzo della Signoria
Cosimo I Painting (aet 12) Attrib. Ridoifo Ghirlandaio Medici-Riccardi Palace
Cosimo I Painting (as a young man) Pontormo Medici-Riccardi Palace
Cosimo I Painting (the Election) Francesco and Jacopo Ligozzi Palazzo della) Signoria
Cosimo I Painting Vasari Uffizi
Cosimo I Painting (in armour) Bronzino Uffizi
Cosimo I Equestrian Statue Giambologna Piazza della Signoria
Cosimo Bust Callini Bargello
Cosimo I Painting (wearing crown and robes of state) Bronzino Uffizi
Eleonora Toledo Painting Bronzino Studiolo di Francesco I, Palazzo della Signoria
Eleonora Toledo Painting (with Giovanni) Bronzino Uffizi
Isabella Painting Bronzino Uffizi
Garzia Painting Bronzino Uffizi
Cardinal Giovanni Painting Sustermans Poggio a Caiano
Pietro Painting Bronzino Uffizi
Francesco I Painting Veronese Pitti
Joanna of Austria Painting (with Filippo) Uffizi
Bianca Capello Painting Bronzino Pitti
Eleonora (daughter of Francesco I) Painting Pulzoni Pitti
Ferdinando I Painting Alessandro Allori Pitti
Christine of Lorraine Painting Scipione Pulsone di Gaeta Medici-Riccardi Palace
Christine of Lorraine Painting (aet 55) Sustermans Corsini Gallery
Claudia (daughter of Ferdinando I) Painting Sustermans Uffizi
Cosimo II Painting (aet 12) Sustermans Poggio a Caiano