Medici Viewing Guide3

Medici

Godfathers of the Renaissance

Viewing Guide for The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

Hagmann

Name _Sydney
________________________
Program 1: “The Birth of a Dynasty”

Use the list below to fill in the blanks. Use each term only once.
Albizzi

arches

artists

bribing

bricks

buildings

classical

manuscripts

columns

concrete

Cosimo

Donatello

Brunelleschi

Florence

g ears General Council

heresy

John XXIII

Pater Patriae

patronage

perspective

pope

power & prestige

republic

1.

The Renaissance begins when Cosimo de Medici and his friends search Europe for _classical
_____
manuscripts
____________.

Simply reading pagan authors like Socrates and Plato was punishable by

excommunication from the church.

2.

Popes could excommunicate (throw from the church and damn forever) Christians guilty of

heresy
_____________,

which was believing anything other than what the church preached.

3.

Brunelleschi
_____________________

, who built the dome of the Florence Cathedral, was both

architect and engineer.

4.

Brunelleschi used _columns
_________



as supports for first time in 1000 years, creating a

revolution in architecture.

5.

Florentines came to watch the construction of the dome. One of the things that amazed

them was Brunelleschi’s use of the classical orders of _arches
________________,



which

hadn’t been used since the fall of Rome.

6.

Although Brunelleschi examined the construction of the dome of the Roman Pantheon, he

couldn’t use the same techniques because of the size of the dome and because the recipe for

making _concrete
____________



had been lost.

7.

Brunelleschi also devised a way to alter the _gears
_________



on pulleys so the oxen could

pull the 1700-­pound sandstone beams 250 feet into the air and return them to the ground

without changing direction.

8.

Brunelleschi personally lay some of the _bricks
__________



on the dome because what he

proposed was so revolutionary that the brick masons were afraid the technique would fail

and they would die.

1

Medici

Godfathers of the Renaissance

9.

and prestige
Cosimo’s



patronage of Brunelleschi helped the Medici family gain _power
________________
______.

10.

The _Albizzi
_____________



banking family, who resented the power of the Medici, had _____
Cosimo
_______

arrested.

11.

Brunelleschi was jailed and forced to stop work on Il Duomo (the dome) when his patron

was found guilty of treason against _Florence
____________________.

12.

Cosimo escaped from the tower that was his prison by _bribing
__________



the guards.

13.

When Cosimo was finally asked to return to Florence, he had even more power and prestige.

The Medici banks became the most important banks in Europe as they collected money for

the _pope
__________.

14.

Cosimo de Medici’s patronage of Baldesari Cossa paid off when Cossa became Pope _____
John XXIII
___________.

15.

Marcello Fantoni: “Patronage is great for the production of art but totally irrational from an

economic view.

_patronage
_____________



is a political strategy. . . .high political competition. . .

.”

16.

Florence was proud to be the only _republic
______________



in Europe; but the government

was often corrupt.

17.

Seventy percent of all Renaissance _artists
____________



lived and worked in Florence.

18.

Brunelleschi also invented linear _perspective
________________.



According to Jeremy Brotton,

this invention changed the way we see, creating a modern way of looking at the world.

19.

The bronze sculpture of David by _Donatello
_________________



was the first free-­standing

statue created since ancient Rome.

20.

Council
Once



Il Duomo was finished, Cosimo organized the _General
____________________

of

Florence, which brought people from all over the world to his city; included were scholars

who knew and could translate Greek the ancient Greek texts that Cosimo and his friends

had been searching for.

21.

Pater Patriae
When



Cosimo died in 1464, the Florentines declared him ________________,

father of

the fatherland.

2