Talking Across the Centuries to the Medici Family
If anyone understood the power of art to influence the course of history, the Renaissance-boosters did.
Agnolo Bronzino’s portrait of Lodovico Capponi, a young noble, is among 90 works dating to the days of the Medici family’s rule of Florence.Credit.The Frick Collection
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The famous and powerful family that once controlled Florence provides the big name in “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” a large exhibition about to open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.