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Merchant elites such as the Medici face a legitimacy problem because they cannot claim battlefield honor or priestly divine authority, so patronage of art becomes a substitute source of status.
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The Medici use artistic and architectural patronage to turn banking wealth into legitimacy and make Florence a cultural capital.
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The Medici use artistic and architectural patronage to turn banking wealth into legitimacy and make Florence a cultural capital.
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"...of a merchant elite in Florence. The family is called the Medici's."
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"...a legitimacy come from and so because of this question the Medici's are forced to patronize a lot of the arts they will patronize..."
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"...a cut of all this trade. And as a result, the Medici family become tremendously wealthy. And they create the Medici dynasty. From this..."
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"...The most famous artists of this time were patronized by the Medici family. So Michelangelo actually lived with the Medici family for a while...."
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"...these are the most famous artists of the Renaissance. And the Medici has patronized every single one of them. Later on in this class,..."
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"...borrow a lot of money from overseas, the Florentines, right, the Medici's, in order to finance the war. Once he became king, he thought,..."
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"Okay? So the Medici's, the Florentine bankers, they sponsored a man named Henry Tudor, Henry Tudor, who is of the House of Lancaster. Okay?..."
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"...was a sensation. He became like the core scientist to the Medici family, and the Catholic Church thought this book was great, okay? But..."
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"...explain himself, and Galileo was pretty confident. You know? He read Medici's,"
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"...that most benefits from the status of the florin is the Medici family. So this is Cosomo, basically the founding patriarch of the family...."
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"But as the Medici are patronizing art and culture in Florence, the printing press is being invented by Gutenberg in Germany. And the printing..."
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"...Florence. And, as a result, he came into contact with the Medici's who tortured him. But he wrote the prince in order to raise..."
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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