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The Medici: Bankers, Popes and Princes
- Mon 26 February 2024
11am-3.20pm - Society of Antiquaries
- Lecturer: Dr Paula Nuttall
This study day will trace the rise of the Medici from the banker Cosimo ‘Pater Patriae’, his son Piero the Gouty and grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent, to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It looks at how the Medici used art to express not only their personal tastes, but also their changing status, and at how their patronage shaped Florentine art.