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
The Medici family used its success from commerce and banking to support the arts and humanities that made Florence in a flourishing culture. In the 13th century the Medici family first acquired its wealth and political power. The start of the Medici history begins with Cosimo de’ Medici who, in 1434, rose to power. Florence became the center of the Renaissance by the assistance of the Medici family’s support of the arts. The Medici’s have produced many note-worthy people; including, four popes, two
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