Heads of the Medici
 Cosimo de' Medici
 Piero I de' Medici
 Lorenzo I de' Medici
 Piero II de' Medici
Elected to Papacy
 Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici
Pope Leo X
 Giulio de’ Medici
Pope Clement VII.
 Giovanni Angelo Medici
Pope Pius IV
 Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici
Pope Leo XI
Duke of Florence/Tuscany
 Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
 Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
 Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Queen of France
 Catherine de' Medici
 Marie de’ Medici
The Medici Bank “God’s Bankers”
 The Medici Bank created in Florence during the 15th
century
 Most profitable business
in Europe
 Partnership with the
Catholic Church
 Collected 10% of
earnings for the church
Filippo Brunelleschi
 Cosimo's patronage enabled architect Filippo
Brunelleschi to complete the dome of the Florence
Cathedral
 Invention of linear perspective
Scarica

Medici