Notes from class: More on the Medicis

• Brunalleschi's dome was being built but the brutal phase was at the top where the problem was whether or not he bricks would fall in. His solution to this was to build vertical bricks to kind of hold the other bricks back. In 1446 the dome was finished.
• Cosimo set up the council of Florence which brought in a mix of merchants, thinkers, and artists to show off the new cathedral. Cosimo paid the travel fees for people from all over. There were many public lectures and Cosimo moved up politically. He became the "godfather" of the Florentine people. Cosimo died in 1464 and he was declared father of the father land. When he died his son
• The Medici ruled through out the renaissance.
• There were rumors of a coup trying to take over the city if Florence when the Medici family had left. Guiliano and Lorenza Medici were the heirs to the Medici dynasty. The Medici did not only rule in Italy.
• A marriage between the Medici and the Roman aristrocracy took place to establish military help. He married Clarice Orsini.
• Weeks after the wedding Lorenzo's father died and Lorenzo as the elder brother gained power.
• Lorenzo was a bit reluctant to become the leader of the Medici family.
• The Chapel of the Magi. Building where on the inside where the three generation of the Medici family and their friends. Lorenzo was also a scholar and knew poetry.
• Under the Medici the Artists created "la primavera" which was inspired by imagination. Boticelli's paintings were very paganistic.
• The Pazzi were the second richest family in Florence and were more noble and older than the Medici. Medici kept them out of political office and the Pazzi tried to get them out. The church was in debt to the Medici so they sided with the Pazzi. The Pazzi knew they had to kill both of the Medici brothers.
• rumors of the conspiracy spread and a new plot was created. On April 26, 1478 all of Florence gathered to celebrate Easter. Guiliano Medici died of 19 stab wounds. Lorenzo was not not there but he was wounded and showed himself to the crowd. The supporters of Medici killed the plotters of the Pazzi family.
• Lorenzo found out that the pope had ordered the Medici family to be wiped out.
• He traveled to meet with his enemies. Florence was worried as was Florence.
• Lorenzo arrived in Naples with many gifts and a peace deal was established although the Pope was against it he consented. The orders were called off and Florence was saved.
• Lorenzo was in control and sponsored da Vinci
• Da Vinci's rival was Boticelli who worked harder to gain the patronage of the Medici
  
• Savonarola thought Lorenzo was ruining Florence with the almost pagan ways.
• Clarice Orsini, Lorenzo's wife, died of TB. he took solace in art thus discovering a young marble sculpture by the name of Michelangelo Buonaratti. Michelangelo was discovered my Lorenzo at age thirteen and was adopted by him.