AlexBoys Cosimo and Florian.
These include works by, or more precisely attributed to, Botticelli,
Piero di Cosimo, Piero della Francesca, Filippo Lippi and Pontormo.
Between the death of Boccaccio(1375) and the rise of Cosimo de‘Medici(1434), the Municipality of Florence
further accentuated the oligarchic character of its institutions.
Of this state of social intolerance the rich merchant Cosimo de‘Medici took advantage of it,
the bearer of popular demands and bitter enemy of the Albizzi.
With the coming to power of Cosimo de‘Medici, civilian humanism gave way
to a form of humanism in which the elitist, abstract and contemplative dimension prevailed.
Exiled by the Albizzi's will, Cosimo succeeded in 1434 to return to Florence thanks
to the support of his partisans and the minute people, establishing the“crypto-lordship” that would last until 1494.
At the end of the corridor
is the Laocoonte copied by Baccio Bandinelli for Cosimo I de‘Medici at the request of Cardinal Giulio de' Medici,
with additions of the Bandinelli himself deduced from the virgilian tale.
Cosimo, holder of the effective power in Florence, favored a humanism that was at the service of his political cause
and did not form a new autonomous ruling class inspired by the purest republican values.
On the right side of the composition, starting from the center, the sons of Cosimo the Elder, Piero and Giovanni,
who are already dead by the time of writing, are depicted near them in a black dress with a red trim melancholy Giuliano Medici, followed by the philosopher Giovanni Argyropoulos.