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The Altoviti are a prominent noble family of Florence, Italy. Since the medieval period they were one of the most distinguished banking and political families appointed to the highest offices of the R
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti by Raphael
Madonna dell'Impannata by Raphael
Bust of Bindo Altoviti by Benvenuto Cellini
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti by Iacopino del Conte
Alessandro de' Medici, nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic, was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537. The first Medi
Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici, duke of Florence, painted by Pontormo, oil on canvas, c. 1534–1535, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Emblem of Alessandro de' Medici, based on Dürer's Rhinoceros. Motto: "Non vuelvo sin vencer" (old Spanish for "I shall not return without victory") (From Paolo Giovio's Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose, 1557)
Portrait of Alessandro de’ Medici, by Giorgio Vasari (1534).
Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici in the Uffizi.