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 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