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Medici Power and Patronage under Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici

5/6/2011

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A dissertation on the role of the Medici

This paper looks at the Medici family’s rise to power and control over Florence.  The main focus of the paper is on Cosimo de’ Medici, who is the man responsible for bringing his family to power.  The first chapter looks at his business and familial connections and the ways that these relationships helped him gain power.  The second chapter examines Cosimo’s role as patron of the arts and learning and the ways in which this helped to extend his influence.  The third chapter looks at Cosimo’s grandson Lorenzo de’ Medici and the ways in which he continued the dominance of the Medici family in Florence, specifically focusing on his role as patron and how 
he took after his grandfather.


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The Importance of Perspective

4/25/2011

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It is said of the Florentine painter, Paolo Uccello (1397-1475),
that the discovery of perspective had so impressed him that he spent nights and days drawing objects in foreshortening, and setting himself ever new problems. His fellow artists used to tell how he was so engrossed in these studies that he would hardly look up when his wife called him for a meal, and would just exclaim: “What a sweet thing perspective is!”

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Was Leonardo a Christian?

12/7/2010

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The beliefs of the man who painted some of the most famous Christian images are shrouded in mystery. Alex Keller coaxes Leonardo da Vinci’s thoughts out of some little-known personal writings.

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The Medici and Gozzoli's Magi

12/7/2010

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Malcolm Oxley on how the Christmas story was co-opted into politics and social aspirations in Renaissance Florence.

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Savonarola - Preacher and Patriot?

12/7/2010

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Donald Weinstein examines the career and context of the extraordinary millenarian friar who held a puritanical sway over Renaissance Florence in the last decade of the fifteenth century.

http://historytoday.prod.acquia-sites.com/donald-weinstein/savonarola-preacher-and-patriot
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Ferrante of Naples the Statecraft of a Renaissance Prince

12/7/2010

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David Abulafia reassesses the life and motives of a notorious ruler and the complex web of Renaissance diplomacy involving him which led up to the Italian wars.

http://historytoday.prod.acquia-sites.com/david-abulafia/ferrante-naples-statecraft-renaissance-prince
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Execution of Florentine friar Savonarola

12/7/2010

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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 23rd, 1498

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Christian Humanism: from Renaissance to Reformation

12/7/2010

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Lucy Wooding introduces a highly significant, but often much misunderstood, cultural force.
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In Place of Strife - The Guilds and the Law in Renaissance Venice

12/7/2010

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The trade guilds of Venice, explains Richard Mackenney, were organisations with a surprising amount of political and economic power in the patrician Renaissance city.

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Da Vinci: Universal Projects for the Universal Man

12/7/2010

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The artist, scientist, botanist, anatomist, engineer, inventor and all-round genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) used paper in a unique way.

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