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Cosimo de' Medici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1433 Cosimo was exiled from Florence by Rinaldo degli Albizzi, but his fortunes soon changed, and he returned in 1434, to ably lead the Republic for the rest of his long life. Cosimo was also noted for his patronage of culture and the arts, liberally spending the family fortune (which his astute business sense considerably increased) to enrich Florence. Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (September 27, 1389, Florence– August 1, 1464, Careggi), was the first of the Medici political dynasty, rulers of Florence during most of the Italian Renaissance; also known as "Cosimo 'the Elder'" and "Cosimo Pater Patriae." en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cosimo_de_Medici   (346 words)

Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cosimo I de' Medici (June 12, 1519, Florence [1] – April 21, 1574, Castello) was the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruling from 1537 to 1574, during the waning days of the Renaissance. When Cosimo heard of their approach, he sent his best troops under Alessandro Vitelli to engage the enemy, which they did at Montemurlo, a fortress that belonged to the Nerli. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace and eight sons to ensure male succession and three daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cosimo_I_de_Medici   (960 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: House of Medici Cosimo's descendants reigned as Grand Dukes of Tuscany in an unbroken line until 1737, when, on the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, their dominions passed to the House of Austria. With him, in 1519, the legitimate male descent of Cosimo the Elder came to an end. But in 1530, after the famous siege, the city was compelled to surrender to the imperial forces, and Charles V made Alessandro de' Medici, an illegitimate son of the younger Lorenzo, hereditary head of the Florentine government. www.newadvent.org /cathen/10120a.htm   (1478 words)

medici.html Cosimo de Medici, or Cosimo the Elder, was born in 1389. Cosimo purged the House of Medici and the city of Florence from the foreign entanglements, and from the interference of his ministers, two areas of control which had been strong since the Savanarolan era. Cosimo's successor, Piero, was less successful than Cosimo, but generally followed his policies and so survived his term leaving Florence much the same as he found it. es.rice.edu /newgalileo/lib/student_work/florence96/alexc/medici.html   (1069 words)

Cosimo de Medici Cosimo de Medici - In 1434, Cosimo de Medici consolidated the power of Florence in his and his family's hands, beginning the reign of the Medici that would last in Florence until the end of the Renaissance. Cosimo built up strong connections throughout Italy and Europe in his capacity as a banker, and applied the wealth of Florence in patronage of artistic and intellectual endeavors. www.sparknotes.com /history/european/renaissance1/terms/char_15.html   (65 words)

The Galileo Project Galileo Patrons Medici Family Cosimo's son, Francesco I (1541-1587) was an ineffectual ruler under whom Tuscany languished. Cosimo spent a considerably part of his huge wealth on charitable acts, live simply, and cultivated literature and the arts. Cosimo's son, Ferdinand II (1610-1670) was just ten years old when he became Grand Duke, and until his majority the government was carried on by the two Grand Duchesses, Cosimo's mother Christina of Lorraine, and Cosimo's wife, Maria Magdalena of Austria, the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. galileo.rice.edu /gal/medici.html   (1482 words)

Your way to Florence:accommodation, tourist services and resources of Chianti, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Cosimo's court was like that of his immediate successors a gathering of artists and scholars, whose works were among the most prized possessions of the family and the city - figures of stature of Donatello, Brunelleschi, Domenico Veneziano; or of Poliziano, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Platina, and Pico della Mirandola. Cosimo's successor was Piero, later called Piero the Gouty, a shy reserved man given to study, meditation and the cultivation of beauty in its most intelligent forms. The Medici policy was always aimed at encouraging democratic aspirations, but the basic intention of the family was to turn those aspirations to their own advantage and to exploit them into their own interest. www.arca.net /db/medici/medici1.htm   (762 words)

Medici, Cosimo II de' on Encyclopedia.com MEDICI, COSIMO II DE' [Medici, Cosimo II de'] 1590-1621, grand duke of Tuscany (1609-21); son and successor of Ferdinand I de' Medici. Although Cosimo played a role in the War of the Mantuan Succession, he generally avoided intervention in foreign affairs; in domestic policy he was less energetic than his father, particularly in economic matters, but he maintained a large fleet. Civic Humanism and the Rise of the Medici [*].(Medici family, political leaders in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance) www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/medicc12.asp   (409 words)

The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence Cosimo appointed Niccolò Tribolo to redesign the gardens of the Medici villa at Castello (outside of Florence) and the Boboli Gardens (behind the Palazzo Pitti) with fountains, grottoes, water tricks, and areas of trimmed and wild plantings. In 1537 the young Cosimo de’ Medici (1519–1574) was plucked from relative obscurity in the Tuscan countryside to lead Florence after the assassination of his cousin Duke Alessandro de’ Medici (1511?–1537). With an innate instinct for public relations, Cosimo engaged his court painters and the new artists’ academy, which he helped to found, in the development of a repertory of images that communicated Medici power and dynastic rule. www.artic.edu /aic/exhibitions/medici/themes.html   (2703 words)

The Medici Archive Project: News and Notes Since Cosimo's accession to the throne in 1537, the greatest threat to his security was posed by the underground network of Florentine republicans living in exile, largely in Sienese territory and in Rome. Duke Cosimo de'Medici declines to assist in the poisoning of Piero Strozzi. Piero Strozzi lived to fight another day, reappearing in Tuscany a few years later as leader of the French forces arrayed against Duke Cosimo in the Sienese War. www.medici.org /news/dom/DOM999.html   (654 words)

Channel 4 - History - The Medici: A chronology Piero de' Medici is born, second son (and later heir) of Cosimo de' Medici, Giovanni's eldest son. Cosimo de' Medici commissions Donatello and Michelozzo to create his tomb in Florence's Baptistry. Piero de' Medici is born, second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent and Clarice Orsini. www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/i-m/medici.html   (2410 words)

SparkNotes: Italian Renaissance (1330-1550): Florence and the Medici (1397-1495) Giovanni died in 1429, leaving behind a legacy of patronage for the arts, an immense fortune, and a son, Cosimo de Medici, who was educated in the principles of humanism. By 1434, Cosimo de Medici had consolidated power for himself and his family in Florence, all the while maintaining the appearance of democratic government. Cosimo clung to his position as a private citizen, but it was clear to all that he ruled the city of Florence from behind the scenes. www.sparknotes.com /history/european/renaissance1/section2.rhtml   (1306 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Medici Medici, Cosimo I de’ (1519-1574), grand duke of Tuscany. Known as Cosimo the Elder, he succeeded his father, Giovanni, as director of the... Medici, Cosimo de’ (1389-1464), Italian banker and statesman. ca.encarta.msn.com /Medici.html   (105 words)

Cosimo de Medici - Terra Cotta Portrait Bust Cosimo de Medici, Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruler of Florence at seventeen, and devoted to the arts. When Cosimo de Medici stepped forth to claim the inheritance of the throne of Florence, the council installed him as Duke Cosimo I. The young Cosimo was tall and handsome. During Cosimo de Medici thirty-seven years of his reign he encouraged the arts in true medici tradition, patronizing Cellini, Giambologna, Bronzino and Pontormo. www.eleganza.com /busts-famous-people-gallery/4-18-cosimo-de-medici-portrait-tc.html   (413 words)

Canadian Journal of History: Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, The Cosimo's patronage not only bolstered his self-image but could also create work for the underprivileged, as Philip Gavitt shows in the tapestry weaving at the foundling hospital of the Innocenti. This book is a collection of fifteen articles on Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-72) and his use of culture to support his power. Mary Weitzel Gibbons argues that Giambologna's equestrian statue of Duke Cosimo, commissioned by Ferdinando I and placed in the Piazza della Signoria, breaks new ground in imperial imagery by "visually exemplif[ying] the concept of discipline and control through its connection to the art and culture of riding" (p. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200304/ai_n9214126   (882 words)

Cósimo III of Medici and the Portuguese Restoration Sanchez Rivero, A. and Sanchez Rivero, A. Mariutti de (w.d). This tradition is present in the case of Cósimo III of Medici, who during 1668-1669 undertook a trip to Spain, Portugal, Ireland, England, Holland, France and Flanders. In many seventeenth century European courts the prince’s formation and education were understood as matters of state, such that the prestige surrounding the quality of the heir’s upbringing could in the future reserve him a position of both national and international distinction. www.brown.edu /Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue2/html/radulet_main.html   (3584 words)

THE MEDICI FAMILY Giovanni's son, Cosimo de Medici, was to be the real founder of the family's fortune. The Medici family members were very interested in the rebirth of learning in Europe and under their patronage the Renaissance flourished. Later on in a political battle with another powerful family called the Albizzi family, Cosimo lost and was banished. www.yesnet.yk.ca /schools/projects/renaissance/medici.html   (604 words)

Cosimo de' Medici His son Cosimo was left his property undivided. It was his cousin Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici who obtained Primavera and The Birth of Venus from Botticelli, his business associates who paid Ghirlandaio for the fresco cycles in S. Trinita and S. Maria Novella. After long quarrels in which Cosimo was banned, he returned in 1434 and from then on his ascent was unstoppable. sstefan680.tripod.com /italy/cosimo.html   (722 words)

Florence Art Guide - The Medici Family By a strange coincidence, Cosimo riunited the two branches of the family: Maria Salviati, his mother, was in fact a Medici through her mother and the blood of Lorenzo the Magnificent ran in her veins. In spite of this, however, Cosimo did not feel really sure of his throne until his hired assassins had murdered his second cousin Lorenzaccio, who would in fact have been, by right of primogenitureship, the legitimate heir to the title of Duke. Two sons were born of his marriage with Piccarda Bueri: Cosimo (1389-1464) and Lorenzo (1395-1440), both of them called "the Elder", from whom the two branches of the family originate. www.mega.it /eng/egui/epo/medici.htm   (657 words)

Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour by BRONZINO, Agnolo Cosimo I dei Medici (Florence 1519-1574) son of Maria Salviati and Giovanni dei Medici, called Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, was duke of Florence since 1537 and first Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1569 to his death. Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour by BRONZINO, Agnolo This painting, slightly wooden and less polished than all the other portraits with which Bronzino consigned the members of the Medici family to posterity, must now be regarded as the original of a long series of replicas. gallery.euroweb.hu /html/b/bronzino/1/cosimo.html   (217 words)

cosimo This is the Medici Palace...rather plain and fortress-like on the outside, so not to provoke envy by his fellow citizens, nonetheless it incorporates many features of antique architecture. Among the most intense of the portraits of Cosimo, both for the vivid fire of the colour and the dramatic restlessness of the powerful drawing. Below are some of the buildings that Cosimo donated money to build: www.d.umn.edu /~aroos/cosimo.html   (536 words)

The Jews and the Medici Cosimo I's liberalism was limited in scope and pragmatic in principle. As a sovereign prince, Cosimo I was free to dictate new terms of Jewish resettlement according to his own best interests and those of his regime. In the 1490s, under the Catholic theocracy of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, both the Medici and the Jews were expelled from Florentine territory. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/medici.html   (1023 words)

Florence Art Guide - Cosimo I dé Medici The son of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere and Maria Salviati, who was also grand-daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Cosimo was to finally reunite the blood of both branches of the family. Florence Art Guide - Cosimo I dé Medici They were quite wrong: Cosimo soon showed his true temperament and, with an able strategem, managed to concentrate all the power in his own hands. www.mega.it /eng/egui/pers/cospri.htm   (189 words)

The Medici. Piero di Cosimo de' Medici and St. Peter Martyr. The Medici and Renaissance art. Piero di Cosimo, born on the 14th June 1416, was the eldest son of Cosimo, yet was not named after his grandfather, Giovanni. Whatever the origins of Cosimo's name, the continued devotion to and promotion of the cult of these saints by the Medici is in no doubt. Cosimo was born on the 11th April, nowhere near the feast day of SS. www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_article_myth_ritual_orthodoxy_medici_st_peter_martyr.htm   (1757 words)

The Spread of Renaissance Humanism - Cosimo Medici's Library in Florence Niccolo was indebted to his friend Cosimo, who followed through on Niccoli's dream to found a public library. Cosimo Medici (1389-1464) was one of the wealthiest men of his time, a generous patron of the Arts, and a collector of books and rare manuscripts. With the help of his agents, both he and his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent brought back books from Europe and the Near East to Florence where they were studied and translated by those in his humanist circle. www.evangel.edu /Personal/borchardtj/web/medici   (373 words)

Frontline: Alessandro de Medici Since they were his cousins and since Cosimo had to consolidate the authority of the Medici family, Cosimo raised Alessandro's children in his own household and continued as their guardian until adulthood. When her husband died unable to give her children a few years later, Cosimo then married Giulia off in 1559 to a first cousin of his, Bernardino de Medici. Alessandro was born in 1510 to a black serving woman in the Medici household who, after her subsequent marriage to a muleteer, is simply referred to in existing documents as Simonetta da Collavechio. www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/medici.html   (874 words)

Cosimo de` Medici and the Florentine Renaissance Cosimo de’ Medici (1389–1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city’s most important patron of art and literature. Dale Kent offers new insights and perspectives on the individual objects comprising the Medici oeuvre by setting them within the context of civic and popular culture in early Renaissance Florence, and of Cosimo’s life as the leader of the Medici lineage and the dominant force in the governing elite. She identifies civic patriotism and devotion as the main themes of his oeuvre and argues that religious imperatives may well have been more important than political ones in shaping the art for which he was responsible and its reception. yalepress.yale.edu /yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300081286   (233 words)

Cosimo il Vecchio by PONTORMO, Jacopo The subject of this rewarding portrait is Cosimo il Vecchio, the founder of the Medici clan and the preeminent citizen of Florence during most of his explosive expansion in culture and finance in the fifteenth century. It is, of course, a posthumous representation painted, according to Vasari, for Goro Gheri da Pistoia, secretary to the Medici. It is based upon previous portraits, and particularly a medal, and is thus more a symbolic than a true physical likeness. www.wga.hu /html/p/pontormo/1/06cosimo.html   (97 words)

The Medici Archive Project: Jewish History, Religion and Culture Cosimo II de'Medici permits Simone Basilea, a Jewish actor from Mantua, to travel around Tuscany performing without an identifying badge (1611) The core of the MEDICI GRANDUCAL ARCHIVE is the "Archivio Mediceo del Principato". It includes some three million letters to and from the Medici family and the Medici administration between 1537 and 1743, filling 6,429 bound volumes and occupying a full kilometer of shelf space in the Florentine National Archive. www.medici.org /jewish/docs.html   (341 words)

Abstract, Nexus 96, Kim Williams: Verrocchio's Tombslab for Cosimo de' Medici The design of Cosimo's marker makes reference to the order of the cosmos, and its placement in the center of the crossing is symbolic of man's central position in that cosmos. he tombslab for Cosimo de' Medici is laid in the pavement in the crossing of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. Kim Williams examined the geometrical design of the tombslab for Cosimo de' Medici designed by Verrocchio at the Nexus 96 conference. www.univie.ac.at /EMIS/journals/NNJ/conferences/N1996-Williams.html   (445 words)

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