Example sentences for: medici

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

  • Rome was plundered by imperial armies in 1527; the Medici were driven out of Florence and returned to power only under tutelage of the Spanish, who won effective control of the whole country.

  • The Pitti’s next-most visited gallery, the Silverware Museum (Museo degli Argenti), occupies 16 sumptuously decorated rooms to offset the Medici family’s invaluable treasures — gold, silver, jewels, beautiful 16th- and 17th-century amber and ivory, crystal, porcelain, and Baroque furniture.

  • 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.

  • It portrays the Medici clan led by Lorenzo the Magnificent in what is in fact an allegory of an ecumenical council with Pope Pius II in Florence.

  • Cosimo the Elder (1389–1464) became the city’s ruler and founder of the Medici dynasty in 1434.


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