2-361-787 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Death 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.