None of Bronzino’s depictions of Cosimo or his family match the fierceness ... there are limits to the control patrons have over the power of art. “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512 ...

From Napoleon’s patronage of Jacques ... subsequent flourishing of Florentine art, much of it funded directly by Cosimo and other members of the Medici family, contributed to the consolidation ...

That pattern of papal patronage was set during the 14th century, by Florence’s wealthy Medici family. Their humanistic desire to enjoy art — and to immortalize themselves by having contemporar ...

Philanthropy and art patronage were born at the same moment as double-entry bookkeeping (another invention of the Medici family). In some ways, today’s patrons in Asheville resemble their ...

Step through the hallowed halls of Florence's Uffizi Museum, where Renaissance masterpieces breathe life into five centuries ...

He is there because the exhibition is about how you, the Medici family ... took art and banking to levels never imagined before. Four of you became popes. In the 17th century, you were patrons ...

Without the money and patronage of the Medici we might never have heard of artists such as Donatello, Michelangelo or Botticelli. Graham-Dixon examines how a family of shadowy, corrupt businessmen ...

Discover the rise to power and legacy of the most famous family of ... only were the Medici bankers to some of Europe’s most important rulers, but also great patrons of the arts.