more magnificent was the palace designed for cosimo de medici.his was not simply a home, but the center of a vast banking empire. massive doors and rustated masonry on the ground floor, increasingly smoother stonework above, created a style that was to be imitated by palaces and banks in europe and america for the next 500 years. de medici created an elegant society where artists and scholars studied astrology and mythology, reviving antiquity for their private pleasure. cosimo commissioned the humanist ficino to translate the works of plato, and out of this intellectual climate came the paintings of botticelli, combining sensuality of pagan mythology with themes and images from christian art. in his painting of the primavera, zephyrus, the wind god, enters the scene and seizes the wood nymph chloris, whose mouth issues flowers as she is transformed into flora, the goddess of spring. in the center stands a figure who sembles both the christian madonna and venus, the goddess of love, and who directs the dance of the three graces. naked venus, seen

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in 1928 jules bache acquired the portrait of giuliano de medici. a broker himself, bache would have identified with that great family of renaissance bankers. other collectors bought works which were by or believed to be by raphael, including the portrait of a young man, now in the hyde collection at glens falls, new york. but by any count, the most successful of all these american collectors of raphael was andrew mellon. a leading force in banking and industry, mellon went on to become secretary of the treasury and later ambassador to england. he also had a second career as a collector. mellon acquired his first raphael in 1928: the large cowper madonna. at that time, the idea was beginning to take shape in mellon's mind for a national gallery, one which would rival the great european galleries. clearly, such a collection had to include raphael. in 1930 mellon was presented with an extraordinary opportunity. the soviet government agreed to sell two of their best raphaels. one was the alba madonna, for which mellon offered the highest price ever pai

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