Cosimo de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany ca. 1567–69 Grand-ducal workshops, Florence Lapis lazuli is a notoriously brittle medium for detailed carving, but the highly specialized Florentine grand-ducal workshops overcame many challenges as they fashioned and assembled hardstones. This portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici is more generalized than those on the medals it is based on, no doubt owing to the extra caution that had to be taken with the drilling. The cameo appears in Medici inventories, described as framed in ebony, between 1588 and Cosimo de' Medici (
Cosimo de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany ca. 1567–69 Grand-ducal workshops, Florence Lapis lazuli is a notoriously brittle medium for detailed carving, but the highly specialized Florentine grand-ducal workshops overcame many challenges as they fashioned and assembled hardstones. This portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici is more generalized than those on the medals it is based on, no doubt owing to the extra caution that had to be taken with the drilling. The cameo appears in Medici inventories, described as framed in ebony, between 1588 and Cosimo de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany 198274
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