Prince's 100 Lances at the Uffizi
In honour of the 500th anniversary of the birth of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I, the Uffizi hosts an exhibition exploring his unusual and effective brigade of German guards, "i Lanzi".
The Grand Duke’s German Guard corps was known, in the Florentine vernacular, as the “Guardia de’ Lanzi,” (Lanzi being an abbreviation of the original German name of the guards, Landsknecht), whose services Cosimo I acquired in a show of loyalty to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
The exhibition studies the Landsknecht from many different perspectives. Divided into four sections and featuring more than 90 pieces, the objects on display include armour, artillery, apparel, artworks, documents and books that narrate the guards’ history and the impact they had on everyday life.
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