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Hace 4 días · In architecture, the Medici were responsible for some notable features of Florence, including the Uffizi Gallery, the Boboli Gardens, the Belvedere, the Medici Chapel and the Palazzo Medici. Later, in Rome, the Medici popes continued in the family tradition of patronizing artists in Rome.
Hace 1 día · The emblematic work of his era is the frescoes covering the walls of Benozzo Gozzoli's Magi Chapel, the private chapel of the Palazzo Medici (1459), decorated on his initiative. In the sumptuous procession of the Magi appear members of the Medici family and their supporters, transported into the sacred episode in which myth becomes a ...
Hace 1 día · The dynasty began in earnest with Giovanni di Bicci de‘ Medici (1360-1429). Born into a middle-class Florentine family, Giovanni founded the Medici Bank in 1397. He pioneered several banking innovations, including the holding company structure, double-entry bookkeeping, and letters of credit. These financial instruments, commonplace today ...
Hace 6 días · Price: £29.95. The name Medici is almost inextricably interlinked with the city of Florence and the idea of the Renaissance in both popular and scholarly imagination. The family dominated the Florentine republic politically for the better part of the 15th century and became, first, dukes of Florence and, then, grand dukes of Tuscany in the 16th.
Hace 4 días · The church of San Lorenzo contains the Medici Chapels, a complex of burial chapels of the Medici family—the most powerful family in Florence from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The Uffizi Gallery, one of the finest art museums in the world, was founded on a large bequest from the last member of the Medici family.
Hace 5 días · Clement VII, Italian pope from 1523 to 1534. He was primarily seen as a Renaissance prince preoccupied with Italian politics and the advancement of his family, the Medici. His indecisiveness allowed the Protestant Reformation to grow and resulted in Henry VIII’s eventual split from Rome.
3 de may. de 2024 · Cosimo de’ Medici (born Sept. 27, 1389, Florence—died Aug. 1, 1464, Careggi, near Florence) was the founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence from 1434 to 1537.
