HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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The Medicine family
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The Michelangelo family
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The Medici family
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Medici family is one of the most powerful and influential groups in European history. They innovated new banking systems and laid the groundwork to make Florence a cultural hotspot. Through their political strategy and patronage of major artists like Michelangelo, they created the High Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Medici in Florence: Political Dynasty, Patrons of the Arts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-1492) became heir to the Medici family of Florence in 1469 at the age of twenty after the death of his father, Piero de’ Medici.
Detailed explanation-4: -Under Medici’s rule, from 1434 to 1737, Florence flourished and transformed into a cultural center of Europe. They were passionate patrons of artists, architects, and scholars, sponsoring masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Sandro Botticelli.
Detailed explanation-5: -Medici family, French Médicis, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530).