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  2. Lorenzo de' Medici - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo's grandfather, Cosimo de' Medici, was the first member of the Medici family to lead the Republic of Florence and run the Medici Bank simultaneously. As one of the wealthiest men in Europe, the elder Cosimo spent a very large portion of his fortune on government and philanthropy, for example as a patron of the arts and financier of public works. [7]

  3. Sagrestia Nuova - Wikipedia

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    The crypt, where some family members are buried, did not satisfy the clients' wishes for splendor and celebration. Not even for Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano de' Medici had a worthy burial been prepared. There was a need to create a new environment as a resting place for the two "dukes" (or "captains") and the two "magnificents".

  4. House of Medici - Wikipedia

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    The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee; [4] Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century.

  5. Portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo de' Medici, wearing a tunic with a collar and ermine sleeves, is represented seated, in profile, with a distant gaze, his face slightly bent, giving him more the attitude of a thinker or a philosopher than of a political leader. Lorenzo is surrounded by various ancient objects bearing sentences in Latin.

  6. Florentine Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo the Magnificent's relationship with art differed from that of his grandfather Cosimo de' Medici: he favoured the creation of public works. On the one hand, for Lorenzo, art had an important public function, but one turned towards foreign states, as an ambassador for the cultural prestige of Florence, presented as the "new Athens".

  7. Karditsa Thinker - Wikipedia

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    It conveys the impression of a man looking upwards, and his hand is supporting his head which suggests a person who is thinking. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Standing about half a meter tall, the figurine exhibits features of fully developed sculpture and is considered the largest Neolithic artifact found in Greece.

  8. Michelangelo and the Medici - Wikipedia

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    The new Pope Leo X was no stranger to Michelangelo, being no other than his old schoolmate Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Since Leo was a Medici, one of the projects that naturally occurred to him was the decoration of the unfinished front of his family's church, San Lorenzo, in Florence. [8]

  9. Francesco Nori (1430–1478) - Wikipedia

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    Francesco Nori shielded Lorenzo during the first assault, dying stabbed in his place by the hand of Bernardo Bandini. His gesture allowed Lorenzo to realize the danger and to escape his other aggressors, Stefano da Bagnone and Antonio Maffei , determining the failure of the conspiracy and the definitive rise of Lorenzo to Lord of Florence.