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After frescoes by Franceschini celebrating the Medici ancestry for the inner court of Villa Petraia, Florence.
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Title: Plate 9: Lorenzo de' Medici founding the Platonic Academy, beneath a coffered arch, standing to the right of a statue of Plato, with contemporary philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Angelo Ambrogini (Il Poliziano), and Cristoforo Landino
Artist:
Carlo Gregori (Italian, Florence 1719–1759 Florence)
Artist:
Intermediary draftsman Giovanni Elia Morghen (Italian, 1721–after 1789)
Artist:
After Francesco Furini (Italian, Florence 1603–1646 Florence)
Subject:
Lorenzo de' Medici (Italian, Florence 1449–1492 Florence)
Subject:
Plato (Greek, ca. 427 BCE–347 BCE)
Subject:
Cristoforo Landini (Italian, Pratovecchio Stia 1424–1498 Borgo alla Collina)
Subject:
Angelo Poliziano (Italian, Montepulciano 1454–1494 Florence)
Subject:
Marsilio Ficino (Italian, Figline Valdarno 1433–1499 Florence)
Subject:
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Italian, Mirandola 1463–1494 Florence)
Date: 1746
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 25 11/16 × 15 1/4 in. (65.2 × 38.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number: 51.501.4653
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