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The results on the exhumation of the bones of Pico della Mirandola and Poliziano were published on 7 February 2008. They were both poisoned by arsenic. This was always suspected to be the case with Pico, but it is new knowledge for Poliziano (at least for scientists - this novelist got there first). I trust it will put paid once and for all to the character assassination that has been going on for four hundred years, begun by those responsible for his murder.
What is new knowledge is that Poliziano was only five feet tall. I never imagined myself looking down on him. Still, he was four inches taller than Ficino: that must have helped.
The conservation department at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, have restored the colour to the terracotta bust after Verrocchio.
Lorenzo de' Medici, 1478/1521
(image after conservation treatment)
Florentine, 15th or 16th century, probably after a
model by Andrea del Verrocchio and Orsino Benintendi
Painted terracotta
65.8 x 59.1 x 32.7 cm (25 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.92
National Gallery of Art, Washington
© 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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