Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici, called Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, c. 1565, Attributed to Carlo Portelli, Italian (Tuscany), Italian (Tuscany), c. 1510–1574, 53 5/8 x 41 3/8 in. ( x cm) (panel), Oil on panel, Italy, 16th century, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498–1526), a celebrated condottiere of the papal mercenary forces, fought the invasion of the Italian peninsula by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Giovanni died the year before Charles’s troops sacked Rome, in a battle outside Mantua. His remains were recently exhumed as part of an archaeological survey of the Medici family

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