Medici Video cont....

• Savonarola a domincan monk did not like what the medici's were doing
• He was all about Religion and anything that was not religious was wrong
• Michelangelo was adopted by the Medici and he even got to listen to and talk to many different artists such as Boticelli.
• He worked on religious subjects but was pulled to the legends that he heard of at home with the Medicis
• Michelangelo believed that his pagan art was leading him in the wrong direction.
• Savonarola had found listeners and believed he could see the future. He said he viewed Lorenzo's freedom of the arts was bringing Florence down. The people of Florence were split down the middle.
• Lorenzo had lost a fortune and across Europe many of the banks had had to close. They started to lose their friends which is how their power started to fall.
• In 1492 he got sick and he turned to the church for help. Giovanni Medici, his son, was a cardinal. Lorenzo asked Savonarola for peace but Savonarola cursed him instead. Lorenzo died at age 43
• Savonarola took his chance at power when Lorenzo died. Boticelli even went along with it and Christianity showed up in his art. Prostitutes were beaten, homosexuals burned, make up and jewelry forbidden. Savonarola wanted the kingdom of God on earth and his commands were carried out by militant youths. A Public burning of unGodlike things was held. In it were books, sculptures, jewelry, and makeup and the like. Even paintings were burned. This is known as the "Bonfire of the Vanities".