Lorenzo the Magnificent meet his allies at the Diet of Cremona, during the war between Venice and Ferrara in 1483. Ceiling painting by Italian Mannerist painters Giorgio Vasari and Marco Marchetti da Faenza (1556-1558) in the Room of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Sala di Lorenzo il Magnifico) in the Apartments of Pope Leo X (Quartiere di Leone X) in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra as an allegory of Courage and allegory of Felicity are depicted on the sides. Giuliano de' Medici, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, is depicted in the tondo bellow.

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