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In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici (1449–1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.
Some of the museum’s most visited rooms are to come: In his graceful Allegory of Spring (1478) and the almost too famous but undyingly delightful Birth of Venus, Botticelli achieves an enchanting mixture of sensuality and purity.
The other wall frescoes by Botticelli, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, and Signorelli are barely given attention.
Botticelli is buried in a chapel (right transept), his St. Augustine adorning the church, while in the refectory in the adjoining cloister, you’ll find Ghirlandaio’s Last Supper.
The prize pieces of this stunning collection include Piero della Francesca’s San Nicola da Tolentino, Mantegna’s Madonna and Child, a Botticelli Madonna, and Antonio Pollaiuolo’s lovely Portrait of a Young Woman.