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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo I de' Medici takes son Francesco into government partnership ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo I de' Medici takes son Francesco into government partnership ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo I de' Medici takes son Francesco into government partnership ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo I de' Medici takes son Francesco into government partnership ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
from Miniver Cheevy
Miniver mourned the ripe renown
That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.
Miniver loved the Medici,
Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.
Miniver cursed the commonplace
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
He missed the mediæval grace
Of iron clothing.
– Edwin Arlington Robinson (1907)
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo I de' Medici takes son Francesco into government partnership ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo II de' Medici receives the Victors of the Annaba Expedition ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo II de' Medici receives the Victors of the Annaba Expedition ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo II de' Medici receives the Victors of the Annaba Expedition ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo II de' Medici receives the Victors of the Annaba Expedition ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo II de' Medici receives the Victors of the Annaba Expedition ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Cosimo II de' Medici receives the Victors of the Annaba Expedition ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Sea Supremacy of Tuscany ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Sea Supremacy of Tuscany ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Sea Supremacy of Tuscany ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |
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| Baldassare Franceschini Sea Supremacy of Tuscany ca. 1637-46 fresco (detail) Villa La Petraia, near Florence |