San Lorenzo

Harvard Business School 9-490-012 Rev. September 14, 1993 People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline I guess the single predominant reason that I cared about starting a new company was to try and develop a better way for people to work together . . . that 's where the name People Express came from. Most organizations believe that humans are generally bad and you have to control them and watch them and make sure they work. At People Express, people will be trusted to do a job until they prove

Marie De Medici: Marie De Medici was the daughter of Francesco I and Grand Duke of Tuscany, she was the wife of Henry IV and mother to her son Louis XIII. Marie's son Louis was sent to Palazzo, Pitti,Florence to build a house that was similar to her home as a child. Marie focused on decorating her palace in the 1620’s. She hung lots of paintings and art by many artists on the history of the Medici family. By 1630 Marie left France after a political struggle. Giovanni De Bicci De Medici: Giovanni

library was constructed in 1433 outside of Florence as a gift for Venetian hospitality and good will. He built and furnished the library for the San Giorgio Maggiore monastery in Venice (Meehan 16). Cosimo’s behavior illustrates that not all members of the Medici family used art for gaining power. The parts of Cosimo’s library that did not go to the San Marco collection went to two of his sons, Piero and Giovanni. As the two boys grew up, they collected more books in competition, but unlike their

width on each side. It is interesting that Leo X and Cardinal Giulio should have allowed the project to get out of hand and then have permitted Michelangelo to quarry marble for it over a period of 18 months. Thus we can suggest the failure of the San Lorenzo facade should be regarded as a failure in patronage, but not in the sense normally supposed. For the best architectural patronage does not consist in giving the artist unlimited funds and license to do what he wants, but rather in having a clear

on the background of the Medici family and how they supported artists of the Renaissances era. This investigation will use a primary source from an artist's work and a secondary source relating to the Medici family uprising.San Lorenzo (church). Medici chapel. Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici which held Sculptures by Michelangelo and Adrien, De Roover Raymond. The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494. Norton Library, 2012.Both sources provide background to the Renaissance time period and how the

In 1490, Savonarola was put in charge of the Monastery of San Marco. Up to this point Savonarola was liked by the clergy for his preaching on diagnosing what was wrong with Florence. Savonarola was very critical of the Medici family and preached on the sins of Lorenzo, the Medici ruler. Lorenzo does not like this so he tries to stop Savonarola. Lorenzo first tries to bribe Savonarola, to no avail. He then tries a face-to-face meeting with Savonarola, but the priest refuses to see him. Many people

“Lorenzo inherited not only his grandfather’s love of the arts and literature, but his political wisdom as well. The qualities would earn Lorenzo the title of ‘Magnificent,’ by which he would be deservedly remembered.” Lorenzo de’ Medici was an accomplished scholar and statesman who turned Florence into a center of culture and arts. His inner circle of intellectuals and artists spread humanistic ideas throughout Europe. Under Lorenzo, the Renaissance flourished. He was a political power that superseded

Without the guidance and support of Lorenzo Medici, a patron of the arts who lived in Florence (1449-1492), the art and architecture of the fifteenth century and its influence on later art would not be as great as it is today. Guided by the way he was raised, those he had around him, and what he did for the art community, even as a young patron, de’ Medici changed the time period itself. Earning the title Lorenzo de’ Magnifico for his success promoting and supporting artists, and not because of his

strategic mind from 1434-1537. He played a large part in the patronage of the arts and the political development of the city. His patronage allowed men to achieve such impressive architecture. Brunelleschi, for example, who restored the church at San Lorenzo. Cosimo centered the city around cultural and creative achievements. He allowed Florence to enter the age of the Renaissance by proving himself and his policies to the people, and making the citizens of Florence proud. Cosimo de’ Medici was

Wars and the Bubonic plague had a major impact on the decline of Middle Age Italy. There needed to be a change and that change came with the families of the Renaissance. These families made Italy what it could become. One of the families was the Medici Family. “The Medici family, also known as the House of Medici, first attained wealth and political power in Florence in the 13th century through its success in commerce and banking” (Staff 2009). Banking and commerce was the reason they became one