5/5/10 Medici Family Notes

• The Medici family were some of the greatest artists and thinkers of the Medieval World
• Michaelangelo
• Botticelli
• Leonardo
• Galileo
• These men were really after knowledge
• They were seeking for lost secrets of the ancient world
• The knowledge was carried back to Florence
• Florence in the year 1400 was a major trading center which was a Republic
• The Medici bank was a business that was run by Cosmo's father
• He wanted loyalty and profit from his clients
• A pirate wanted a fund from them to go in the Vatican or even the Pope (Casa)
• In 1410 he was elected Pope John the 23rd
• They become known as God's bankers
• For 100 years an unfinished cathedral was in Florence
• Philipo Bruneski
• He was a genius but not liked about his peers
• In 1419 a new orphanage became a showcase for his ideas
• He brought the idea of columns back into Europe
• He would have to rewrite the rules of western architecture
• The recipe for concrete had been lost in the fall of Rome
• He served wine to the workers and fed them when they were up there
• In 1429 Cosimo's father died
• The Albestie family was the enemies of the Medici
• He was summoned to the palace of government in 1430
• He was there for torturing and answers
• They needed the vote of the people to execute him
• They found him guilty but his life was spared
• He pared a hefty bribe to his jailer to let him out
• Fillip Brunelleschi was thrown in jail and work on the dome was stopped
• He is King of Florence in everything but name
• He continued the work on the dome
• The Medici bank was now the most profitable business in Europe
• He would let his workers do whatever they wanted as long as they did the work they were commissioned to
• Fillip invented linear perspective which made a three dimensional space
• He put the bricks in a vertical design so the dome would not implode
• In 1436 he finished the dome
• He invited the Pope to conduct the consecration
• The cultures of east and west Italy came together
• Medici payed all the traveling expenses when people from far out places of the world
• In his final years he baptized and buried a grandson and a son
• 1464 is when Cosimo died
• Florence was a Republic and was led by important families
• The Vatican is the most powerful place at that time
• Giovanni started the bank and Cosimo was his son
• Lorenzo rode on ahead to ensure safe passage for his father
• They were in search of allies outside the lines of Florence
• He got married so the Medici family gained a lot of military power
• He gets sick
• Lorenzo was now the leader of the Medici family
• He offered help to the poor people of Tuscany
• He became a part of the procession of the Magi
• He let other people come and visit in his palace
• He called his work la primavera
• The Patsy are the second richest family
• The Patsy wanted to eliminate the Medici
• 1478 on Easter the Medici and all of Florence gathered to celebrate
• Julianno was stabbed 19 times
• Lorenzo got wounded but was not dead
• The supporters of the Medici wanted revenge
• The Pope had ordered troops to kill all the Medici family members
• He rode south to try to negotiate with his enemies
• He arrives in Napals with money and gifts for everyone
• The enemy troops were called off and Lorenzo saved Florence from destruction
• He adopted the son of his murdered brother
• Leonardo made someone quit painting for good he was so good
• He did not make a lot of Christian art
• Most of his paintings had nudes in it
• He blamed Lorenzo for all that was sinful
• Lorenzo's wife died from Tuberculosis suddenly at the age of 32-34
• In 1488 he established the first art school
• Michaelangelo was only 13 when he carved a head of a fawn out of marble
• He was given his own room at the Medici palace
• The birth of Venus was from Botticelli
• 1388 - he established the first art school in Florence
• Florence was split then people who liked the Medici's artwork and those who did not
• Medici banks were forced to close
• 4192 - Lorenzo fell seriously ill
• He turned to the Church
• Juivanne, Lorenzo's son, was only 16 and already a cardinal
• The Dominican Monk damned Lorenzo even though he wanted salvation
• At the age of 43 Lorenzo died fearing Hell to his last breathe
• Botticelli did a lot of apocalyptic paintings
• Savonarola was the monk
• H would burn homosexuals and beat prostitutes
• They burned all of Lorenzo's accessories
• Even Botticelli joined in on the burning and hurled his own paintings into the flames
• The bonfire of the vanities was what this was called