The Medici – Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

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But at the same time that the New World was becoming a profitable reality for the Medici, representations of the Americas in Florence became more fantastical. Although while reading it I didn’t feel it was belligerently homophobic, it is absolutely true that the author doesn’t possess a true understanding of homosexuality. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.

There are great personalities such as Lorenzo the Magnificent, and also minor but equally interesting figures. I’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who appreciates Renaissance painting who is not smitten by the work of Sandro Botticelli.Ryan built on the work of Elliot and others by explaining that it was not necessarily the discovery of the New World that took time to assimilate in the sixteenth century but the very idea of novelty itself. Paul Strathern’s The Medici: Power, Money and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance, is a fast paced book which has much to merit its fame. I admire both Davids—Donatello’s boyish, relaxed David and Michelangelo’s muscular, steely-eyed David.

The book spans over 150 years, and covers Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici and his banking roots, the achievements of his son Cosimo and the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, with whom the Medici bank had already started to lose his grip. With incisive detail, L’Heureux beautifully renders the master sculptor’s forbidden homosexual passions, and the artistry that enthralled the powerful and highly competitive Medici and Albizzi families.Fortunately, the de' Medici family, with its renowned interest in and support of the arts, plays a role in several of the arts-inspired novels listed on Art In Fiction.