The Renaissance, Contributions And Influence In The Renaissance

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Artists and Patronage During the fifteenth century families from noble blood emerged with wealth and economy, causing capitalism to flourish and with that patronage was born ( Cunningham, Reich, and Fichner-Rathus 2015). As the city of Florence raised with wealth, art became important for the church and for those with power. During the Laurentian Era, art bloomed too freely for the eyes of the church and as a consequence, a radical adjustment was demanded to take place. As a result, art as a whole was brought back to its primary principles. During this time the change in the artistic conventions was monumental in the city of Florence, while hundreds of years later it was just a minute change in course in the development of art. During the Renaissance the Medici family held as much power as the church, they had an immense fortune that allowed them to expand more and more as the time passed. Radically different from his descendants, Cosimo, Giovanni and his father Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici, all cautious and serious men, Lorenzo enjoyed learning, art, youth and freedom, and had no fear to embrace what he appreciated in public, even if it meant breaking the moral rules (logoscs 2012). Lorenzo had no trouble spending his fortune on what defined the Renaissance itself, art patronage. There were several artists that worked under Lorenzo’s patronage, but Botticelli and Leonardo Da Vinci were the two men that made a unique impact on art under Lorenzo’s patronage, and that

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