Medici

Examples of Medici in the following topics:

• Art and Patronage

  • The House of Medici was an Italian banking family, political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.
  • The Medici were responsible for the majority of Florentine art during their reign.
  • In architecture, the Medici are 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.
  • However, the Medici family did afford the scientist a safe haven for many years.

• Italian Politics

  • The Medici were responsible for the majority of Florentine art during their reign.
  • The Medici Bank was one of the most prosperous and most respected institutions in Europe.
  • The Medici family were among the earliest businesses to use the system.
  • Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici was the first of the Medici political dynasty and had tremendous political power in Florence.
  • Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici, the found of the House of Medici, by Jacopo Pontormo; the laurel branch (il Broncone) was a symbol used also by his heirs.

• France and Cardinal Richelieu

  • Like Concini, the Bishop was one of the closest advisers of Louis XIII's mother, Marie de Médicis.
  • Concini was consequently assassinated and Marie de Médicis overthrown.
  • In 1619, Marie de Médicis escaped from her confinement.

• Machiavelli

  • He was secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.
  • In France, after an initially mixed reaction, Machiavelli came to be associated with Catherine de' Medici and the St.

• Introduction to the Renaissance

  • Various theories have been proposed to account for the origins and characteristics of the Renaissance, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time; its political structure; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

• Philip II and the Spanish Armada

  • Philip's third wife was Elisabeth of Valois, the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.

• Arts and Sciences

  • The affluence of the merchant class allowed extensive patronage of the arts, and foremost among the patrons were the Medici.

• The French Wars of Religion

  • To the left rear, Catherine de' Medici is shown emerging from the Château du Louvre to inspect a heap of bodies.