Death mask of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence preaching with pickpockets

with pickpockets

Courtice Pounds (1862-1927)

View of the west end of Austin Friars

(1855-1915)

with a Description of the Volcano on Its Summit

Death mask of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence preaching with pickpocketsDeath mask of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence, 1492 (1956). Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449 1492) ruled the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. His death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. From the Societa Colombaria, Florence. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.