Medici Family by Noah Feig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq Pure awesomeness en-us 2018-04-24 15:34:59 UTC 2018-05-23 18:53:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAVRcI6mFU 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/254892385 Medici family was were a small bank. Cosimo(son of local merchant) supported a pirate(Baldassare Cossa) to be Pope with a large sum of money. Then the Pirate became Pope and gave Medici a lot of money and that brought him power. The Church in Florence was unfinished and Cosimo thought that if he finished it  it would give him absolute power. He hired Brunelesci who learned to make it from studying Greek and Roman structures. The Al Bizzi were the strongest family in Florence at the time and found the Medici threatening. The Al Bizzi arrested Cosimo with treason, which he was found guilty of, but he bribed his way out and fled. While in the countryside the city fell into economic downfall so the Al Bizzi lost control of the city and the Medici gained it. The Medici put money back into the city and had a lot of patrons.]]> 2018-04-24 15:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/254892385 The Italian Renaissance 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/255386465 Cosimo funded scholarships and artists. He loved Greek and Roman texts. He patroned many artists.]]> 2018-04-25 18:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/255386465 https://www.history.com/topics/medici-family 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/256702864 When Cosimo I (1519-1574) moved the Florentine administrative offices into a building known as the Uffizi, he also established a small museum. The building is now the site of Florence's famed Uffizi Gallery, home to many of the great Renaissance-era treasures amassed by the Medicis since the time of Cosimo the Elder.
The Uffizi holds the David statue and is still around today.
supported the work of such Renaissance masters as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo (whom the Medicis commissioned to complete their family tombs in Florence) ]]> 2018-04-30 21:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/256702864 https://www.history.com/topics/medici-family 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/256906014 political power from 13th century to 1737 they produced the popes Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV and Leon XI
popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV and Leon XI), and their genes have been mixed into many of Europe’s royal families. The last Medici ruler died without a male heir in 1737, ending the family dynasty after almost three centuries.

Another branch of the family, descended from Salvestro’s distant cousin Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici, would begin the great Medici dynasty. Giovanni’s elder son, Cosimo (1389-1464), rose to political power in 1434 and ruled Florence as an uncrowned monarch for the rest of his life. Known to history as Cosimo the Elder, he was a devoted patron of the humanities, supporting artists such as Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello and Fra Angelico. During Cosimo’s time, as well as that of his sons and particularly his grandson, Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492), Renaissance culture flourished, and Florence became the cultural center of Europe.
]]> 2018-05-01 15:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/256906014 https://mymodernmet.com/michelangelo-david-facts/ 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/256907267 Medici chose the David to represent their city because their city was surrounded by threats and it would show courage and overcoming odds. Likely, the sculpture's stature is a result of its intended location: the roof of the cathedral. In order for the public to fully appreciate the sky-high figure, it would need to be large enough to view from the Piazza del Duomo, hence David‘s colossal size.]]> 2018-05-01 15:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/256907267 http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth213/Medici_patronage.html (quotes from vespasiano da bisticci) 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/258009218 Now it seems to me only just and honest that I should prefer the good name and honor of my house to you: that I should work for my own interest rather than for yours. So you and I will act like two big dogs who, when they meet, smell one another and then, because they both have teeth, go their ways. Wherefore now you can attend /p. 121: to your affairs and I to mine.

He rewarded those who brought him back [from exile], lending to one a good sum of money, and making a gift to another to help marry his daughter or buy lands
Cosimo built a giant palace on the Via Larga to show off how refined and luxurious he lived.
Lorenzo spent over 600,000 Florins(one florin back then was worth almost 1000 dollars today.)
Lorenzo Medici said "casts a brilliant light upon our condition in the city"
The Medici did it to show off their wealth and the wealth of the city]]> 2018-05-04 12:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/258009218 https://www.forbes.com/2008/10/30/medici-banks-meltdown-oped-cx_ms_1031simonetta.html#369b0085129a 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/259580688 about decline]]> 2018-05-10 12:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/259580688 Power and Decline 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/259585094 2018-05-10 12:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/259585094 Patronage/what rich people do with things 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/259585745 2018-05-10 12:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/259585745 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/medici 19nfeig https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/263136208 2018-05-23 18:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/19nfeig/fctztzo89pmq/wish/263136208