Humanities Medici Family Flashcards
Monks hired by the Pazzi killed Guiliano by shooting him to death.
false
Lorenzo de Medici married Clarice Orsini because she was beautiful and he was in love with her.
false
When Lorenzo returned to Florence, he was named “Il Magnifico” and asked to take over the government of Florence; he agreed.
false
For 20 years, the Florentines benefited from Lorenzo’s public generosity, his “spending virtuously” on buildings, art, festivals, and entertainments.
true
Lorenzo established the first art school in Florence.
true
Botticelli’s paintings like The Birth of Venus are religious rather than humanistic.
false
Six years after his fundamentalist backlash against the Renaissance and Lorenzo de Medici, Savonarola was excommunicated, tortured, chained, hanged, and burned. Florence had turned against the prophet after suffering years of plague, war, and starvation.
true
Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican priest who worked for Lorenzo.
false
Savonarola believed that nude paintings and non-religious art were evil.
true
Savonarola believed that nude paintings and non-religious art were evil.
false
The system of patronage used by the Medici family to operate Florence and Tuscany, in which people are personally loyal to a family that looks out for them in return, was similar to the system used by the Mafia to control Southern Italy.
true
All of the artists that the Ninja turtles were named after (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello) worked for the Medici family.
true
The Pazzi, a rival banking family, tried to have Lorenzo and his sister killed Easter Sunday 1478 in the Florentine cathedral.
false
The Pazzi were killed or run out of Florence, but Pope Sixtus sent an army against Florence to avenge the death of his relatives.
true
The frescoes in the chapel of the Medici Palace advertised the family’s power.
true
The current pope, Pope Sixtus, was in on the plot against the Medici.
true
Lorenzo survived, and his supporters hanged the conspirators, including two relatives of the pope from the government building windows.
true
Lorenzo de Medici ruled Florence through influence rather than by law or elected position.
true
Lorenzo visited his enemies in Naples alone, bribed them, and defeated the Pope’s attempts to destroy Florence.
true
In the “Bonfires of the Vanities,” Savonarola and his followers burned books, makeup, clothes, wigs, art, and jewelry.
true
Eventually Botticelli either changed his mind about what subjects are appropriate for his own paintings or he feared the repercussions his art might bring because he threw some of his own paintings on Savonarola’s “Bonfire of the Vanities.”
true
When Lorenzo died in 1492, Savonarola forgave him on his deathbed.
false
After Lorenzo’s death, Savonarola gained control of the city; his bands of “skinhead” teens roamed the city beating up prostitutes, burning homosexuals, and harassing anyone wearing jewelry, makeup, or elaborate clothes as well as anyone still owning dice or cards
true
When Lorenzo’s banks began to fail, the ‘amici delle amici’ (friends of friends) system of influence began to break down because there weren’t enough personal favors to go around.
true
The Renaissance begins when Cosimo de Medici and his friends search Europe for ____________. Simply reading pagan authors like Socrates and Plato was punishable by excommunication from the church.
classical manuscripts
Popes could excommunicate (throw from the church and damn forever) Christians guilty of _________, which was believing anything other than what the church preached.
heresy
____________, who built the dome of the Florence Cathedral, was both architect and engineer.
Brunelleschi
BRUNELLESCHI used __________ as supports for first time in 1000 years, creating a revolution in architecture.
arches
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 ________, which hadn’t been used since the fall of Rome.
columns
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 _______ had been lost.
concrete
Brunelleschi also devised a way to alter the ________ 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.
gears
Brunelleschi personally lay some of the_________ on the dome because what he proposed was so revolutionary that the brick masons were afraid the technique would fail and they would die.
bricks
Cosimo’s patronage of Brunelleschi helped the Medici family gain _________ and __________.
power; prestige
The _________ banking family, who resented the power of the Medici, had _____________ arrested.
Albizzi; Cosimo
Brunelleschi was jailed and forced to stop work on Il Duomo (the dome) when his patron was found guilty of treason against ____________.
florence
Cosimo escaped from the tower that was his prison by ________ the guards.
bribling
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
