The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (51 page)

24. The Medici Palace as it appeared after its enlargement by the Riccardi family. The upper storeys which can be seen facing the church and the overhanging cornice are as Michclozzo designed them. The church on the left is San Giovannino degli Scolopi which was rebuilt between 1579 and 1661 by Ammanati and Giulio and Alfonso Parigi.

25. The Palazzo Vecchio (formerly known as the Palazzo della Signoria) and the Loggia dei Lanzi after the building of the Uffizi which can be seen behind the Palazzo.

26. The lily of the commune of Florence, surmounted by the granducal coronet, as represented in mosaic in the Cappella dei Principi.

27. The Grand Duke Cosimo I, 1519–1574, by Bronzino.

28. The Grand Duke Cosimo I as portrayed by Cellini whom he treated with the ‘greatest affection’ on Cellini’s return to Florence.

29. Cosimo I’s son, the Grand Duke Fcrdinando I, 1549–1609, by Pulzone.

30. The Pitti Palace was bought by Cosimo I’s wife, Eleonora of Toledo, in 1549 and thereafter became the residence of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

31 and 32. Two views of Florence from the Arno. In the lower picture the Palazzo Vecchio, Bruncllcschi’s dome and Giotto’s campanile are all easily identified.

33. The
studiolo
of the Grand Duke Francesco I in the Palazzo Vecchio built for him by Vasari and filled with Florentine late Mannerist paintings. The circular portrait in the lunette is of Francesco’s mother, Eleonora of Toledo, by Bronzino.

34. A portrait of Cosimo I engraved by Niccolô délia Casa in 1547 after a portrait by Baccio Bandinelli painted in 1544.

35. The Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere, by Dolci. She was the wife of Ferdinando II and mother of Cosimo III.

36. The festival of the
Omaggi
on St John the Baptist’s Day when the Grand Duke ‘received homage from such as hold territories, forts and castles of him, within his dominions… which was performed by their passing one by one before him, lowering the banner they carried’. It was celebrated every year on 24 June until 1808.