Fresco, Courtyard, Villa La Petraia, Florence, Tuscany
Cosimo I de Medici introduces his son Francesco to the government, detail, fresco, by Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano, 1611-89, commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici, from the Fasti Medicei, or Glories of the Medici family, series, in the internal courtyard at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The scene is set in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, where Francesco, enthroned, receives the Florentine senators. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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