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The Medici banking family was the leading patron of Renaissance Florence.
The House of Medici
Financially support artists. The Medici family commissioned many works by many notable artists of their era.
The Medici family was full of patrons of the arts. However, the greatest among these was Lorenzo de Medici, who sponsored both Botticelli and Michelangelo.
Leonardo da Vinci's most important patron and the one who employed him the longest was the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Il Moro
The Medici banking family was the leading patron of Renaissance Florence.
Cosimo de Medici', a member of the most famous patron family of Florence Italy.
Lorenzo de Medici was a royal ruler, statesman and patron of the arts. He was a high ranking member of society as well as a leader who influenced the arts and Italy's government. Many consider him to be the most intelligent of the de Medici family.
The Medici family was the great patron of renaissance artists.
The House of Medici
Financially support artists. The Medici family commissioned many works by many notable artists of their era.
The Medici family. Namely Lorenzo De Medici or Lorenzo the Magnificent.
The Medici family was full of patrons of the arts. However, the greatest among these was Lorenzo de Medici, who sponsored both Botticelli and Michelangelo.
The Medici were a banking family from Florence, Italy. They gave loans in turn for more money (interest). And they were very smart with their monmey....paying for artist such as Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. A very helpful link on the Medici: go to google and look up The Medici Family on PBS and is shpuld come up.=Hope this helps!=
Lorenzo Medici
Michelangelo Buonaroti first patron when he was 15 was Leonardo de`Medici.
The Medici were a powerful family that ruled Florence for over 100 years. They supported some of the greatest artists of the renaissance, such as Donatello and Michelangelo. The Medici started out as a merchant family, but eventually their business, influences and friends made them the richest family in Florence and they eventually took power. Cosimo De Medici was the first Medici who ruled Florence, he was the patron of Filippo Brunelleschi, the person who desgined and led the construction of the big Cathedral of Florence Lorenzo de Medici created an art academy where famous artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo made their art. The Pope Leo X was a Medici that was exiled from Florence. Even Galileo belonged to the Medici court, he was the personal teacher of one of the Medici.