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The Medici

Lorenzo „il Magnifico“ de' Medici

Pope Leo X. alias Giovanni de' Medici


 

Pope Leo X. alias Giovanni de' Medici (in the centre)

with his cousins, the Cardinals Giulio de' Medici (left) and Luigi de' Rossi (right)


 

Pope Leo X. (on the right side)

in discussion with Michelangelo (in the middle) about the construction of the St. Peter's Basilica – on the far left side we can see the artist of this painting, Jacopo da Empoli, and next to him Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, a cousin of the Pope


 

Giovanni de' Medici, the future Pope Leo X. (left)

with his elder brother Piero II. (right)


 

Giovanni de' Medici, the future Pope Leo X., c. 1489 ?