Medici family
Renaissance banking clan
The Medici family was a powerful Italian banking dynasty that dominated Florence from the 15th through 18th centuries.
Their patronage of artists like Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci helped spark the Renaissance.
The name now evokes lavish artistic patronage, political cunning, and concentrated wealth: She fancies herself a Medici, collecting emerging artists.
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- Italian RenaissanceCultural rebirth in Florence
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- BotticelliQuattrocento painter from Florence
humanism · banking · merchant prince · old money · patronage · Leonardo da Vinci · art patron · Tuscany · oligarchy · Uffizi Gallery · Machiavelli · Catherine de' Medici · wealth · power broker · Brunelleschi · Galileo Galilei · manuscripts · papacy
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, Reformation, sixteenth century
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Sicily
- RenaissanceLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Mona Lisa
- Art PatronsMedici, Rockefeller family, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie
- arts patronagepatron, patronage, sponsors, benefactor, benefactors
- Baroque ItalyVenice, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan
Medici familyiconoclasts
Attackers of cherished beliefs
philistines · Vandals · Taliban · ISIS
Medici familypeasantry
Rural working class
common people · paupers · landed gentry · plebeians · proletariat