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Example sentences for: medici
How can you use “medici” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In Renaissance times, the quarter south of the Arno, Florence’s “Left Bank,” was an aristocratic preserve where the Medici held court.
Adjoining the church but with a separate outdoor entrance in the back are the Medici Chapels (Cappelle Medicee), monuments to the splendor and decadence of the family dynasty.
A collage of Bill Gates costumed as a Medici together with Michael Eisner outside a fairytale castle represents the way "culture rode the coattails of money" in the Renaissance and in the 1990s.
The ascending Pincio promenade lined with umbrella pine trees takes you past the Villa Medici, home of many French artists visiting on national scholarships, to the 16th-century French church, Trinità dei Monti.
Consider Gira Fornaciari, who unearthed 49 members of the Medici family to confirm various causes of death, or the committee that had Beethoven and Schubert dug up to transfer them to more secure zinc coffins (borrowing both heads for a bit more measuring, and swiping Schubert's luxuriant, larvae-laden hair while they were at it).