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I’m not sure if everybody is fully informed about my wild Medici fangirling, particularly for Lorenzo and poor doomed Giuliano. While they're the best known of the family, they were hardly the only Medici to make an impact – some of them ruled Florence, and two of them became Popes.
It’s the portrait of one of these Medici Popes that I want to show today, painted by one of the Big Names of the Renaissance art world.
is for Portrait of Pope Leo X and Cardinals Luigi de’Rossi and Giulio de’Medici, by Raphael.
( We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish. Thou shalt have the power, out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine. )
It’s the portrait of one of these Medici Popes that I want to show today, painted by one of the Big Names of the Renaissance art world.
is for Portrait of Pope Leo X and Cardinals Luigi de’Rossi and Giulio de’Medici, by Raphael.( We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish. Thou shalt have the power, out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine. )