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1 day, 1 hour ago

Secret passage that Florence’s Medici used to move safely reopens to public after 8-year renovation

ROME — For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after an eight-year restoration project. The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move secretly and …

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3 days, 1 hour ago

Medici secret passageway in Florence reopens after refit

Raw Story

A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici family to pass through the Italian city of Florence unhindered reopens to the public Saturday after an 10-million-euro restoration. Its 73 windows offer unrivaled views over the city center, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and will now finally be accessible to the general public. "Now restored to its original …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Eleonora di Toledo understood the power of her image

Hindustan Times

BEJEWELLED AND brocaded, she gazes serenely at the viewer. Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as Bronzino, finished the portrait of Eleonora di Toledo, the Duchess of Florence, in 1545. She was an active participant in public life: by the time Bronzino completed the painting, Eleonora had already stepped into her husband’s shoes three times as regent. The Medici dynasty would …

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1 year ago

How a 1574 portrait was made 'Insta-fabulous'

BBC

How a 1574 portrait was made 'Insta-fabulous' Carnegie Museum of Art Restorers are uncovering "forgotten faces" that were later retouched, with painters adding plump lips, sculpted noses and tapered chins centuries afterwards, writes Kelly Grovier. In recent days, a glimpse of that tradition became visible when it was revealed that conservators for English Heritage, while cleaning a 17th-Century portrait of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

‘Secret room’ decorated by Michelangelo to open to the public in Italy

CNN

Editor’s Note: Sign up to CNN Travel’s Unlocking Italy newsletter for insider intel on Italy’s best loved destinations and lesser-known regions to plan your ultimate trip. But it’s Michelangelo Buonarroti’s less bombastic work that’s on display to the public for the first time in the artist’s “secret room” in Florence. The tiny space sits beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Visitors will be allowed in Florence chapel's secret room to ponder if drawings are Michelangelo's

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

Why tattoo and visual artist eX de Medici weaponised watercolours to fight conservatism

ABC

When Australian artist eX de Medici came across a video of performers sloshing around in hundreds of litres of animal blood, sharing a stage with the carcass of a freshly slaughtered bull, she couldn't bear to watch. At the time, tattoos were perceived as being the realm of bikers, miscreants and military louts – and de Medici's government-funded 'professional development' …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Malavika’s Mumbaistan: Could NMACC be Mumbai’s Medici Moment?

Hindustan Times

Paris has the Louvre, New York the Met, London the Tate and Sydney its iconic Opera House; Institutions that define the cultural and creative capital of their megalopolises, symbols of their intellectual vibrancy and intangible wealth. And so, it is not surprising that there was a palpable sense of excitement amongst those of us gathered last Friday for the historic …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Iris Law, Shailene Woodley and Alexandra Daddario attend Dior show

Daily Mail

Iris Law, Shailene Woodley and Alexandra Daddario put on glamorous displays as they led the stars at the Dior show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. Suave: The daughter of Jude Law showed off her sensational sense of style in a plunging oversized striped shirt, which she tucked into beige trousers with braces hanging loosely around her waist Stunning: She …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Samantha Morton interview: ‘I’ve never sought revenge – you have to be careful’

The Independent

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3 years, 2 months ago

Snoop Dogg Reveals He Is An NFT Whale; Has A Collection Of Over $17 Million

News 18

Non-fungible tokens have everyone interested in them. Rapper Snoop Dogg has revealed that he is an NFT collector and has been functioning under the pseudonym Cozomo de’ Medici. According to a portfolio estimate tool, Snoop’s wallet is loaded with NFT collectibles with prices amounting to over $17 million. Nine items from Snoop Dogg’s NFT collection from the Ethereum blockchain-based CryptoPunks …

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54 years, 11 months ago

If Snoop Dogg Isn’t This Secret NFT Trader, Who Is?

Slate

One unwritten rule of the internet is that anytime a new financial and/or cryptocurrency-related and/or inscrutably money-generating innovation gets attention, two things will occur: 1) There will suddenly be countless Twitter accounts related to it, many of them sketchy-looking or at least mysterious, and 2) a famous rapper will get involved, somehow, some way. Follow me @CozomoMedici for more tales …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Kolkata Never Gave the Due Honour to Her First ‘Medici’!

The Quint

Imperial Kolkata’s British population was never very large. However, they desired to have in Kolkata of all amenities available back home - newspapers, banks, taverns, hotels, theatres, good road, river infrastructures, police and justice systems. The private British traders wanted to have independent banks as the EIC would not lend them capital. They wanted newspapers to update their knowledge on …

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3 years, 8 months ago

'Versus Medici': Rare Basquiat Painting Pops Up for First Time, May Fetch $50 Million at Auction