page_title: Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: de:Florenz, Italien: Basilica di San Lorenzo, Neue Sakristei, Grabmal von de:Giuliano II. de’ Medici English: en:Florence, Italy: San Lorenzo, New Sacristy, statue of Giuliano by en:Michelangelo in the tomb monument of Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici
context_page_description: Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici KG was an Italian nobleman, the third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and a ruler of Florence.
context_section_description: Born in Florence, he was raised with his brothers Piero and Giovanni de' Medici, who became Pope Leo X; as well as his cousin Guilio de' Medici, who became Pope Clement VII.
  His older brother Piero was briefly the ruler of Florence after Lorenzo's death, until the republican faction drove out the Medici in 1494. Giuliano moved therefore to Venice. The Medici family was restored to power after the Holy League drove the French forces that had supported the Florentine republicans from Italy. This effort was headed by Spain with the support of Pope Julius II. Giuliano reigned in Florence upon the return of the Medici in 1512, until the year he died in 1516.
  He married Filiberta (1498–1524), daughter of Philip II, Duke of Savoy, on 22 February 1515 at the court of France, thanks to the intercession of his brother Giovanni, now pope as Leo X, in the same year that King Francis I of France (Filiberta's nephew) invested him with the title Duke of Nemours (which had recently reverted once again to the French crown) on the occasion. The French were apparently grooming him for the throne of Naples (in which the French maintained a historical interest), when Giuliano died prematurely. He was succeeded in Florence by his nephew Lorenzo II de' Medici.
  Giuliano left a single illegitimate son, Ippolito de' Medici, who became a cardinal.
  His portrait, painted in Rome by Raphael (a painter favored by Leo), shows Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo behind a curtain. (A studio version is at the Metropolitan Museum.)
  Giuliano's tomb in the Medici Chapel of the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, is ornamented with the Night and Day of Michelangelo, along with a statue of Giuliano by Michelangelo. Due to the identical common name (Giuliano de' Medici) that he shared with his uncle Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, whose tomb is also in the Medici Chapel and who is famous for being assassinated in the Pazzi Conspiracy, his tomb is often mistaken for that of his uncle.
caption: Giuliano's statue in the Medici Chapel, created by Michelangelo
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