For instance, Lorenzo’s son Giovanni was eventually elected Pope Leo X. Some of those Medici popes were major patrons of the art in Rome. Pop into the ostentatious Chapel of the Princes designed for the Medici Grand Dukes.

Later in the 16th century, Marie de’ Medici, who’d been married to Henry IV of France and was the mother of the Sun King, Louis XIII, was patroness of Peter Paul Rubens. It was Lorenzo the Magnificent who recognized Michelangelo for the genius he was, supporting him and also offering him access to the family’s library and incomparable collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.

Meanwhile, his son Piero II presided over Florence.

The Medici boasted descendancy from Charlemagne but it is highly unlikely that there’s any truth to claim. Cosimo commissioned Donatello and Fra Angelico to produce some of the most sublime sculptures and paintings of the first quarter of the 15th century. His was not a handsome face but it was a memorable one. However, it is likely that this story was invented by the French court as a means of slandering Queen Caterina de’ Medici (b. 1519 - d. 1589), by implying that her family had come from modest origins. 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Besides commissioning art, the Medici were avid collectors and a sizeable portion of their collection made its way to Florence’s Uffizi Gallery. He had a flattened, sloping nose that looked broken, a prominent jaw and wide, dark eyes lurking under bumpy, irregular brows. Pope Innocent VIII : biography 1432 – 25 July 1492 In Rome he built for summer use the Belvedere of the Vatican, on an unarticulated slope above the Vatican Palace, which his successor would turn into the Cortile del Belvedere. The origins of the so-called “Medici Balls” is unclear. In the day of Cosimo the Elder, an observer once declared that in the Monastery of San Marco, Cosimo “had even emblazoned the monks’ privies with his balls!”. Occasionally, the number of balls is different, as can be seen, for example on Medici family crests in the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo there’s a shield featuring seven balls; a shield on the ceiling has eight; and the tomb of Cosimo the Elder has just five. https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VIII?oldid=260022. Palle!

Lorenzo was a far better judge of good poetry, music, architecture, and art than business. Meanwhile, his son Piero II presided over Florence. 1488. The conspirators had included Pope Sixtus IV in their plot as he had an ongoing, years-long rivalry with the Medici himself.