Medici Family: The Medici Families During The Italian Renaissance

The funding of art simply to have it, is more pronounced than it was in the Northern Early Renaissance. This was seen often by the Medici family, they paid artists, even those with poor temperament, to create things for them. Some of these arts were kept in the home as personal wants of the family, others like Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome, were to show the immense power of their wealth. No matter what the need of the patron’s art was, this offered even more chances of paying work for the artist.

The Italian Renaissance was an interesting time for scientist, artists and writers alike, and one figure that stuck out and displayed a mental capacity for deeper thinking was Niccolo Machiavelli. One of his famous pieces was The Prince. Though he wrote many others this one was important because it introduced a new idea, a new image to the people. Power was important, and the institutions that control various social aspects must be closely watched and a careful balance between aggression and reason must be found. Your average Prince was a ruler that believed in the importance of the people, not only the importance, but the subject as a whole.

Artemisia Gentileschi and Saint Catherine of Siena are two women in history that had perseverance and strength during a male dominated society in Rome, which can be seen in their legends (histories), popular memories, and presentations. Artemisia Gentileschi was born on July 8th, 1593 in Rome (Bissell, 153). Artemisia had an artistic upbringing due to her father, Orazio Gentileschi being a Tuscan painter. When Gentileschi’s mother died, Orazio raised and provided for Artemisia and her siblings. Although uncommon at the time, Gentileschi trained in painting and became a sensation in the craft.

Brunelleschi was most well known for accomplishing one of the greatest architectural feats during the Renaissance, under the patronage of the most wealthy Florentine families the Medici’s he succeeded in completing the dome of the Florence cathedral as well as developing the artistic technique of perspective.

The family used their political and finical power to fund art through Italy. They held this power for the majority of the time from the 13th century until the 18th although the bulk of the family’s came with Cosimo the Elder in 1434. Through the years the family

The “ideal” idol gained their power by being remarkably intelligent and liable. Machiavelli is the perfect example of this. Machiavelli gained his power from being a political leader for people to seek themselves in. This justifies people’s needs for power, and therefore, they envied Machiavelli because of his political power. Machiavelli influences the modern political science we still use today, and continue to pave his paths.

Queen Victoria ruled during the Industrial Revolution, which has increasingly helped the innovation of new technologies and industries across the globe. Great Britain had an excess amount of natural resources and a large enough workforce to make the empire one of the wealthiest and most powerful in the world. Trade and competition was heightened (Williams), and the expansion of the British empire was one of Victoria’s personal missions as the queen. Victoria had many important events occur in her lifetime, but the most significant out of them all was the Great Exhibition of 1851. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert both wanted to share the knowledge that Great Britain held with the nations of the world.

Da Vinci always strived to perfect this painting and so it was never delivered to its commissioner but the artist kept it with him his entire life. Today the “Mona Lisa” has found her home in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France and sits securely behind bulletproof glass and is regarded as a priceless national treasure. I wonder if perhaps the spirit of the real Mona Lisa smiles fondly as people admire her day after

I will take every opportunity of seeing it again.” In that same exhibition fellow artist Bryson Burroughs, a promoter of the classical tradition in the manner of Puvis de Chavannes and soon-to-be appointed Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibited a portrait of Jerome that attracted a good deal of publicity. But perhaps the greatest boost to Myers’ career was the extensive, illustrated article titled “Jerome Myers: Painter of the Common People” that

One of the most famous artists was Albrecht Dürer. He used perspective idealized beauty he learned from Italian painters. Much of Dürer's art shows religious figures. He painted mythical object and creatures. Dürer's work is widely admired, particularly his beautiful engravings and woodcuts.

The Renaissance was the rebirth of Europe after it was terrorized by the plague, known as The Black Death. With this rebirth came a desire to redesign Europe into something better. People began studying the ‘Classics’, or ancient Rome and Greece. Science, math, and the arts were studied and funded in the hopes of rebuilding Europe’s culture and population. Many great artists spawned from this period of the Renaissance.