Medici Family Influence

Medici Family Influence From rags to riches is how the Medici family came to be. Many beautiful sculptures and art pieces came from the three hundred year reign of the Medici’s (BBC). Their time as Florence’s great leaders fluctuated from chaos, adjustment, to balance, and even back to chaos at times. The Medici era began with Giovani de Medici, born into poverty, but as a young adult he developed a strong and steady plan to make his family wealthy (BBC). He set up the first Medici bank in 1397(Cunningham pg. 343-425). This opened up the doors for the Culture Epoch theory of chaos. He had set of shop in an old, dusty basement. While he was still in the chaos time of his reign, Giovani franchised the first pope of the Medici House… a pirate (Renaissance Notes). The popes name was John the twenty-third. Until the young Medici family grew their roots their lives were filled with chaos, mainly because dealing with money brought loads of stress, …show more content…
Art and literature also began to prosper (Renaissance Notes). Thus, the doors open for adjustment to be accomplished; the resistant group, such as common folk, began to follow along and great strides were accomplished. The Medici family promoted literature in the vernacular, Fluorence’s everyday language (Vocab Notes). Under the control of Cosimo de Medici, a knowledgeable business man who promoted great artist such as Filippo Brunelleschi, the man who designed the very difficult structure of the Santa Maria Del Fiore dome (Finnan). Cosimo franchised him for building this dome. Donatello also became a significant artist of this time. He sculpted the Saint George, Mary Magdelene, and the very famous David