Lorenzo+di+Medici+1449-92

Lorenzo was born in Florence on the 1st of January in 1449 and on his father's death he became the director of the Medici bank, as well as de facto rule of the Florentine republic; he was more successful as a politician and art specialist than as a bank administrator. Lorenzo di Medici called The Magnificent (1449-92), Italian banker and statesman, who was a leading patron of art and scholarship during the Renaissance. Lorenzo was born in Florence on the 1st of January in 1449 and on his father's death he became the director of the Medici bank, as well as de facto rule of the Florentine republic; he was more successful as a politician and art specialist than as a bank administrator. In 1478 members of the Pazzi family tried to assassinate Lorenzo, and in the aftermath of that affair the Medici punished some supporters of Pope Sixtus IV implicated in the plot. Pursuing the family policy of promoting peace among the Italian states, Lorenzo ended the war declared by the Pope on Florence by personal diplomacy. Lorenzo was a gifted poet, and so he gathered at his court the leading artists and intellectuals of his day. Among those who enjoyed his patronage were the painters Botticelli and Michelangelo, the philosophers Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and the humanist poet Angelo Poliziano (Politian). His last years were devoted to establishing the careers of his children and guarding the peace; Lorenzo died at Careggi on April 9, 1492.
 * Lorenzo di Medici called The Magnificent (1449-92),** Italian banker and statesman, who was a leading patron of art and scholarship during the Renaissance.

Three things in my judgment are called for for a perfect work of painting, namely, a good support, a wall or wood or cloth or whatever it may be, on which the paint is applied; a master who is very good both in drawing and in color; and, besides this, that the matters painted be, in their own nature, attractive and pleasant to the eyes. Italian banker and statesman.
 * Medici** (1449 - 1492)

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 * Medici** (1449 - 1492)