Example sentences for: medici

How can you use “medici” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the north end of the gardens, the Palais du Luxembourg, built for Marie de’Medici early in the 17th century, now houses the French Senate.

  • Brunelleschi is at his most elegant in the Old Sacristy at the end of the left transept (site of a few Medici tombs), decorated with four Donatello wall-medallions (the artist himself is buried in the left transept).

  • To the left of its entrance is a copy of Donatello’s Marzocco, Florence’s heraldic lion, next to his bronze of Judith and Holofernes, which always made the Medici uneasy with its theme of a tyrant decapitated.

  • The first Medici wasn't all that nice a guy, but by Lorenzo's time, the Medici stock had mellowed a bit.

  • The 26 richly-decorated salons (just a fraction of the Medici residence) are named after the themes of their 17th-century frescoes — Venus, Hercules, Prometheus, etc.


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