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The Medici family was connected to most other elite families of the time through marriages of convenience, partnerships, or employment, as a result of which the Medici family had a position of centrality in the social network: several families had systematic access to the rest of the elite families only through the Medici, perhaps similar to banking relationships.
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In addition, the arts benefited from the patronage of such influential groups as the Medici family of Florence, the Sforza family of Milan and Popes Julius II and Leo X.
After settling in Florence the family enjoyed a relationship with the then ruling Medici family.
Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, and numerous religious and republican revolutions.
After their suppression, Florence came under the sway ( 1382 – 1434 ) of the Albizzi family, bitter rivals of the Medici.
Cosimo de ' Medici was the first Medici family member to essentially control the city from behind the scenes.
* 1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
Lorenzo's grandfather, Cosimo de ' Medici, was the first member of the Medici family to combine running the Medici bank with leading the Republic.
Once Siena had been conquered by Florence under the rule of the Medici family in 1555, Montalcino held out for almost four years, but ultimately fell to the Florentines, under whose control it remained until the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was amalgamated into a united Italy in 1861.
In 1513, Pope Julius II died and his successor Pope Leo X, of the Medici family, commissioned Michelangelo to reconstruct the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures.
Apparently not the least embarrassed by this turnabout, the Medici later came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
The Medici Chapel has monuments in it dedicated to certain members of the Medici family.
In 1494, Florence restored the republic — expelling the Medici family, who had ruled Florence for some sixty years.
The family recovered this setback under the more friendly Medici popes of the early 16th century.
An inventory made by his employers, the Medici family, indicates the existence of a piano by the year 1700 ; another document of doubtful authenticity indicates a date of 1698.
Though the work was written for the di Medici family in order to perhaps influence them to free him from exile, Machiavelli supported the Republic of Florence rather than the oligarchy of the di Medici family.
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Jacopo Buonaparte was a friend and advisor to Medici Pope Clement VII.
That same year Beaux was asked to produce a self-portrait for the Medici collection in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell ' arte style to France.
Florence was home to the Medici, one of history's most important noble families.
Lorenzo de ' Medici was considered a political and cultural mastermind of Italy in the late 15th century.
Following the death of Lorenzo de ' Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II.
During Sforza's reign, Florence was under the command of Cosimo de ' Medici and the two rulers became close friends.
The Medici giraffe was a giraffe presented to Lorenzo de ' Medici in 1486.
His father was a devoted adherent of the Medici party, but Luigi, smarting under a supposed injustice, joined with others in an unsuccessful conspiracy against Giulio de ' Medici, afterwards Pope Clement VII.
But in 1482 Leonardo went off to Milan at the behest of Lorenzo de ' Medici in order to win favour with Ludovico il Moro, and the painting was abandoned.
Another often-reproduced drawing is a macabre sketch that was done by Leonardo in Florence in 1479 showing the body of Bernardo Baroncelli, hanged in connection with the murder of Giuliano, brother of Lorenzo de ' Medici, in the Pazzi Conspiracy.
Browne was fascinated by the world of dreams and described his own ability to lucid dream in his Religio Medici: "... yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof ".
Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492 ) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.
Lorenzo's father, Piero ' the Gouty ' de ' Medici, was also at the center of Florentine life, active as an art patron and collector.
Vasari's opinion was that Mariotto was not so well grounded in drawing as Bartolomeo, and he tells that, to improve his hand he had taken to drawing the antiquities in the Medici garden, where he was encouraged by Madonna Alfonsina, the mother of Lorenzo de ' Medici.
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They were scions of an impoverished though patrician family of Milan not connected with the Medici of Florence, in spite of the Medici heraldic palle appearing in the contemporary engraving ( illustration ): thus the nickname Il Medeghino, the " little Medici ".
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Around 1450 – 1456 he painted his three most famous paintings The Battle of San Romano, the victory of the Florentine army over the Sienese in 1432, for the Palazzo Medici in Florence.
He was the second son of Lorenzo de ' Medici, the most famous ruler of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini.
The Medici Bank was one of the most prosperous and most respected institutions in Europe.
The most outstanding figure of the 16th century Medici was Cosimo I, who, coming from relatively modest beginnings in the Mugello, rose to supremacy in the whole of Tuscany, conquering the Florentines ' most hated rival Siena and founding the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
During the reign of Ercole d ' Este I, one of the most significant patrons of the arts in late 15th and early 16th century Italy after the Medici, Ferrara grew into a cultural center, renowned for music as well as for visual arts.
The oligarchs most compromised by their service to the Medici were barred from office.
Coluccio Salutati ( February 16, 1331 – May 4, 1406 ) was a Tuscan humanist and man of letters, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance Florence ; as chancellor of the Republic and its most prominent voice, he was effectively the permanent secretary of state in the generation before the rise of the Medici.
Catherine de ' Medici's court festivals, often even more overtly political, were among the most spectacular entertainments of her day, although the " intermezzi " of the Medici court in Florence could rival them.
Mismanagement of the kingdom and ceaseless political intrigues by Marie de Medici and her Italian favourites led the young king to take power, in 1617, by exiling his mother and executing her followers, including Concino Concini, the most influential Italian at the French court.
His work recataloguing and adding to the Medici collections, first of drawings and then of paintings, was groundbreaking, using new ideas about organisation and completeness to make these the most modern collections of the time — collections in large part the foundation of the Uffizi's art holdings.
The most distinguished of these is the bronze group of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, a work ( first suggested by Duke Cosimo I de Medici ) now in the Loggia dei Lanzi at Florence, his attempt to surpass Michelangelo's David and Donatello's Judith and Holofernes.
Probably the most important event in Cristofori's life is the first one of which we have any record: in 1688, at age 33, he was recruited to work for Prince Ferdinando de Medici.
Ten years later, he was named a member ( Accademico ) of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, just founded by the Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici, at 13 January 1563, under the influence of the painter-architect Giorgio Vasari, becoming also one of the Medici most important court sculptors.
On the other hand, Piero enjoyed a great reputation as a portrait painter: the most famous of his work is in fact the portrait of a Florentine noblewoman, Simonetta Vespucci, mistress of Giuliano de ' Medici.
The " Monumento dei quattro mori " (" Monument of the Four Moors "), dedicated to Grand Duke Ferdinando I de ' Medici of Tuscany, is one of the most important monuments of Livorno.
Many of his most successful designs use auctions as a vehicle to price risk, as in Ra, Medici, and Modern Art.
Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, a British resident in Florence, recalled in a letter that " The common people are convinced she went off in a hurricane of wind ; a most violent one began this morning and lasted for about two hours, and now the sun shines as bright as ever ..." The royal line of the House of Medici went extinct with her death.
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