Florence ~ Palazzi continued... The Medici Riccardi Palace

The Medici Riccardi Palace is glorious and few tourists come here.  Again, I'm going to imagine the place is mine and roam about, from one room to another, see the splendor, fluff the pillows, check the rug pad, move from the sitting room to the chapel.... that just happens to have Gozzoli's paintings of the Magi along with his melding of the Medicis into the Christian narrative.  Anachronistic, but powerful.

(accidentally named the video The Bargello, sorry)
The Medici-Riccardi palace was once the home of Lorenzo the Magnificent.  And magnificent he was, indeed.

He knew how to rule, bank, support the arts.... he loved Fra Fillipo Lippi's work...

And he appreciated splendor!!

And okay, there was that stuff about beheadings, assassinations, disemboweling, rape, pillage, plunder, clandestine deals with the papacy, lust and other 'stuff'.... but he did know art.  So there you go.