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Article: NEW EXHIBIT DEVOTED TO LATE RENAISSANCE FLORENCE \ WORLD OF MEDICI AND MICHELANGELO.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2002
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Byline: F.N. D'Alessio Associated Press reporter
CHICAGO -- More than four centuries ago, a melancholy young nobleman from the Medici family, Francesco I, second Grand Duke of Tuscany, had a secret chamber built at one of his palaces in Florence. He filled it with exquisite art works, jewels, natural curios and scientific specimens.
Francesco spent days at a time hiding from the world in what he called his "studiolo" or study. Other rulers of the day who had similar vaults called them "wonder cabinets."
The curators of an exhibition that opened recently at the Art Institute of Chicago, "The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance ...