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Among the treasures of Florence there is certainly the Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, the big mansion that Michelozzo was building for Cosimo the Elder since 1444. The chapel is by definition a private, devotional space, that here the Medici family created around 1459.
Being a dwarf in the Renaissance was certainly not easy. Abused from an early age, they were often sold to circuses to be shown to people as monsters and obliged to do the most degrading performances. Some of them had a better life when they became members of a court and some even succeeded to become advisers of their Lord.
Palazzo Medici is the house that Cosimo the Elder asked Michelozzo to build since 1444. His business was going very well and so he could afford to build a house for his family, leaving his previous one that belonged to his in-laws and his wife in the Santa Croce district.
The Mona Lisa is doubtless the most famous painting in the world and it is at the Louvre. Italians and especially Florentines find hard to accept that it is in France. Why should it?
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