Palazzo Medici Riccardi
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The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a 15th-century Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It was built for the Medici f
The palace's Renaissance façade with its rusticated stone walls
Michelangelo's "kneeling windows", a feature later copied by the Medici at their Palazzo Pitti, also in Florence
Inner courtyard
Gallery with decorations by Luca Giordano
Magi Chapel
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The Magi Chapel is a chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi of Florence, Italy. Its walls are almost entirely covered by a famous cycle of frescoes by the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli, painted ar
Palazzo Medici Riccardi
…the Medici years have long been removed; most are now still in Florence in museums. The most important section of the palace with wall-paintings is the Magi Chapel, famously frescoed by Benozzo Gozzoli, who completed it around 1459. Gozzoli adorned the frescos with a wealth of anecdotal detail and portraits of…
Gozzoli magi
Fiorentino's Adoration (after Lippi).
Apse, Detail of the choir of angels.
West Wall, Castruccio Castracani with a leopard, the symbol of his house.