A brilliant look into the origins of modern banking and its troubled relationship with art and religion - Lorenzo de Medici - Cosimo de Medici.
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who too…
A brilliant look into the origins of modern banking and its troubled relationship with art and religion - Lorenzo de Medici - Cosimo de Medici.
'Changing Patrons' combines visual analysis with techniques from history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others Botticelli, Filippino Lippi and Raphael.
"To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing tha…
