He was one of the most important figures for Renaissance culture in Italy, and he was the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance arts. Florence has a Medici Chapel where he is buried.

but also a way to become "more noble than noble" through the patronage of art and architecture. What They Talked About When They Talked about Love in Sixteenth-Century Venice Brigate were groups of ...

(Book) Cynthia Stollhans, St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Rome: Case Studies in Patronage (Ashgate, 2014) (Book) Katherine McIver and Cynthia Stollhans, editors, Patronage, Gender and the ...