HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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The Medicis commissioned art and architecture, built churches and hired artists to decorate them
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The Medicis were very religious and supported religious education
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The Medicis were politicians who helped the poor
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The Medicis were shipbuilders who traveled the world
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Medici family became the bankers of the Christian Pope especially during the times of the two Medici Popes, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII. The presentday financial system of international banking is deeply inspired by the practices of the Medici Bank.
Detailed explanation-2: -By establishing branches in major trading centers across Europe, the Medici bank tapped into foreign trade networks and offered exchange and transfer of credit for clients. The Medici banking success was not immediate.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Medici, an art-loving family of wealthy bankers (and three popes), helped fund the Renaissance. They regularly hosted artists and commissioned art for their palace and their family tomb-the Medici Chapel-a masterpiece by Michelangelo.
Detailed explanation-4: -The work they had artists produce also had a political purpose-acting as potent symbols of the family’s dominion in virtually all aspects of society in Florence and effectively boosting the city as an art center in the process.
Detailed explanation-5: -But perhaps their most enduring legacy-for which the world owes them a debt of gratitude-is their patronage of the arts. Artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, and Michelangelo all thrived under Medici patronage.