that time period influenced other artists. Before the Medici Family was in power in Florence, art was not in demand. Artists could not make enough money to support a home or other basic needs. The Medici Family was a politically connected and wealthy family that used their power to support art and artists. The family used their wealth and powers that they received from the bank to make the best art programs of the Renaissance era. The Medici Family’s rise to power gave many investment opportunities
The Medici family was a successful bank family in the republic of Florence. This essay will introduce you to how the Medici family build a good reputation and used their political power trough beautify the city of Florence with architecture and Urban design. In 1397 Giovanni de Medici, who was the banker to the papal court, established his headquarters in Florence. Giovanni died in 1429 and his son Cosimo de Medici took over the family bank and build up his father’s fortune by getting connections
and controversial aspects belonging to it. To do so, Nicholl based his research on the work of Giorgio Vasari, the art historian who wrote the biographies of various Italian artists, and on many other literary and historical sources. Leonardo was born on the 15th April 1452 in Vinci, a little village “slow, provincial agrarian; the countryside came right up to your windows”(Nicholl 17). The Da Vinci were respected people, a family of notaries. Leonardo was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero and Caterina