Image Title:
Portrait of Duke Alessandro de' Medici (1510-1537)

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". . . nicknamed "il Moro" ("the Moor") due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1531 to his death in 1537.^[1] The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last Medici from the senior line of the family to lead the city. His assassination at the hands of a distant cousin, Lorenzaccio, caused the title of Duke to pass to Cosimo I de Medici, from the family's junior branch.” [Wikipedia] Learn More

Artist:
Agnolo Bronzino  (1503–1572)

Image Source:
Wikipedia

Subject:
People - Europe - Afro-Europeans -  Black European - Afro European -  Moor - Knight - Medici - Duke - Late Renaissance - African-European - Italy - The Medici Family - Italian - Renaissance - The House of Medici

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SA-PPLEU-38

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