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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Short-Term Fellowships at M CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Short-Term Fellowships at MAP

The Medici Archive Project is offering twelve short-term fellowships for graduate and pre-doctoral students, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with an emphasis emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history).

2 Samuel H. Kress Fellowships
4 Eva Schler Fellowships
4 Beatrice Solomon Fellowships
2 Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Fellowships

Each fellowship will last for an uninterrupted period of no less than three months, taking place between 15 September 2026 and 20 December 2026 (FALL SEMESTER) or 4 January 2027 and 20 July 2027 (SPRING SEMESTER).

The fellowship stipend is USD 8,000.
The scholarship requires a period of residence in Florence and is incompatible with any other work commitments during the same time. 

Applications are due 15 July 2026.

For further information and application instructions, click the link in our bio or contact education@medici.org.

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Last week, we shared a document describing the sal Last week, we shared a document describing the sale of a collection of antiquities that had previously belonged to Pietro Bembo, including "a most ancient bronze panel, over three thousand years old, inscribed in the Egyptian manner." It seems that the object was indeed acquired for the Grand Dukes, as a letter from Fulvio Orsini describes "the bronze panel that [Ferdinando de' Medici] wants to have sent to [Francesco I]."

His description of the work, more elaborate here than the previous letter, is alluring: "the figures in bronze and enamel, laid onto the bronze with excellent artistry and diligence, were then covered with a varnish similar to emerald, granted by time. They create a beautiful surface on the panel"—that is, a patina. This description has a delightful antiquarian tone to it, not all that different from how such works are described today!

Orsini goes on to say that "The letters, which are inlaid with silver ... are not understood today, and were not even understood in the time of Pliny, who mentions them and calls them 'litteris ignorabilibus' ['unknowable letters']. But the meanings of several figures are known, such as the Apis bull ... I will only say, though, that one of the figures is similar to a cross"—a compelling observation that may have been meant to suggest an early (anachronistic) affinity to Christianity. "I would wager that this panel is the oldest and rarest thing that one can see today, and that it was brought by Augustus from Egypt to Rome along with the Obelisk[s]" and placed on the Circus Maximus (pictured here).

ASF, Mediceo del Principato 746, f. 264r
MAP DocID: 14174
Transcribed by Anatole Tchikine
Circus Maximus from Joan Blaeu's Atlas van Loon, 1649.

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📣 Public Lecture: MEDICI TWISTING OF MEDICI HISTOR 📣 Public Lecture: MEDICI TWISTING OF MEDICI HISTORY IN THE SALA DI LEONE X by Henk Th. Van Veen (University of Groningen)
🗓 Thursday, 11 June 2026, 5:30pm
📍 The Medici Archive Project, Palazzo Alberti (Via de' Benci, 10), Florence

In recent years, the paintings by Vasari and his workshop in the Palazzo Vecchio have been characterized as products of the recycling of imagery that he had previously developed and used elsewhere. This is said to have given these paintings a rather generic character and to have left them with little specific, topical content or meaning. By examining some of the most important paintings in the Sala di Leone X, this lecture will demonstrate that rather the opposite is true. In these scenes, the recent history of the Medici was manipulated in such a way as to allude to important specific political and military positions and actions of the patron, Duke Cosimo. To achieve this, written and visual sources—which themselves were already manipulations of historical reality—were further distorted. The way each individual figure is placed in the scenes expresses the judgment passed upon that figure from the perspective of Cosimo’s regime. In a blatant distortion of historical fact, certain figures were also omitted from or added to the scenes. This procedure made it possible, within the scenes, to evoke still other historical episodes which could allude to Cosimo than the ones depicted.

Henk Th. Van Veen is professor em. at the University of Groningen. His field of research is Tuscan sixteenth-century art and culture. He wrote Cosimo I De’ Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture, CUP: Cambridge 2006 (2011). In 2022, Alessio Assonitis edited together with him, A companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici, Brill: Leiden/Boston 2022. In 2024, together with Bouk Wierda and Lotte van ter Toolen, he edited The Codex of the Anonimo Magliabechiano: Newly edited with a transcription faithful to the original manuscript and provided with an Introduction, Brill: Leiden 2024.

This lecture is free and open to the public. Email education@medici.org for more information!

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It was wonderful to see so many friends and collea It was wonderful to see so many friends and colleagues at the workshop THE ARMY OF FLANDERS; CROSSROADS OF PEOPLES, CRUCIBLE OF NATIONS (15567-1706), organised in conjunction with the War Heritage Institute, Brussels. We spent two days reassessing and redefining the place of the Army of Flanders, considering it within the framework of modern scholarship. We look forward to seeing where this research goes in the future!

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