By Heather Lehr Wagner
ISBN-10: 0791086305
ISBN-13: 9780791086308
ISBN-10: 1438104227
ISBN-13: 9781438104225
This prosperous Italian relatives from Tuscany and Florence directed the destinies of Florence from the fifteenth century via 1737.
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His father was horrified at Michelangelo’s decision to become an apprentice to a painter at the age of 13, wanting his son to become a businessman instead. Michelangelo studied painting and sculpture in the Medici gardens, where he came to the attention of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and soon was living in the Medici Palace. While there, he spent time with the two Medicis who would become Popes Leo X and Clement VII. During the regime of Girolamo Savonarola, Michelangelo went to Rome, to study its classical statues and ruins.
Two years after his father’s death, Cosimo de’ Medici decided to build a new home—a palace— for his family, near the Church of San Lorenzo. He Bankers to the Republic When Giovanni de’ Medici was killed on February 28, 1429, his family was one of the wealthiest in all of Florence. His vast fortune was passed on to his two sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo. Cosimo, shown here, was the oldest son. As such, he assumed responsibility for the family business. 31 32 The Medicis determined that his palace would be something extraordinary, something that would reflect the new styles in architecture and design that were beginning to flourish in Florence.
IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS As the oldest son, it was Cosimo de’ Medici’s responsibility to run the family business. At the time of his father’s death, Cosimo de’ Medici was 40 years old, and had already formed an important alliance with the current pope, John XXIII. Having helped to save the pope’s life, Cosimo de’ Medici had earned for the Medici family the pope’s loyalty, plus—perhaps more important—the lucrative and prestigious responsibility of serving as official banker for the vast wealth of the Catholic Church.