Italian Renaissance Video

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_de%27_Medici

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• some men broke into churches to steal articles from the ancient world.
•  The men took the knowledge back to Florence, Italy which was the place to be in the 14th and 15th centuries
• A boy named Cosimo de Medici lived there and he and his family were very ambitious to make their name known
• In the medieval world there was a chain of friends that started with someone being someone's client and then they would protect each other and each other's friends
• The Medici family had funded a man all the way to become the pope when there was a struggle for power and then when he became the pope he remembered the Medici's and they because very powerful and rich.
• A man name Filipo Brunelleschi built a famous dome for a cathedral for the Medici's
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_porcelain
• His style had not been done since ancient Rome and his ideas started an architectural revolution across Europe.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipo_Brunelleschi
• Brunelleschi had many challenges to overcome
• Brunelleschi had an ingenious idea to build a dome inside the larger dome to support it
• The dome inside was made of sandstone rings 
• Cosimo's father died, Giovanni, and Cosimo lost his mentor and guide
• there was a struggle for power between the Medici's and other families
• The Medici family lost lots of power and control so Cosimo sent his family and lots of money away with them
• Cosimo was accused of betraying the city and a vote was taken to decide his fate
• Cosimo was found guilty
• He was sentenced to be executed but he had friends of the inside
• Brunelleschi was even jailed
• he made a deal to pay his jailers to be freed
• He walked away but a new family, the Albetizi family, was in control
• Florence was not the same without the Medici family because their bank had funded most of the activities in the city
• No friend of Cosimo was safe with the Albetzi in charge
• Cosimo had many powerful friends and he eventually came back into power
• the people who betrayed him were punished when he came back into power
• Brunelleschi was freed and he went to finish his work
• He and the pope worked out deals and they collected money from every parish in Europe.
• The Medici bank was the most profitable business in Europe
• he became the most sought after patron in Florence which led to many new artists being funded by him.
• Cosimo funded lots of artists and their works became well known
• in 1434 Brunelleschi invented a new form of art
• He invented perspective
• This was revolutionary because no other artist had done that before.
• Brunelleschi finished his massive dome and it was the greatest architectural feet in the western world
• Cosimo had the Pope consecrated that church himself
• Cosimo used his triumph to have the Council of Florence
• The council brought the best artists, clergy, nobles, and merchants to Florence
• The guests were amazed by all the art in his council
• The people of Florence named him the Father of the Fatherland
• When he died the people wondered who would fill his shoes and be the father of the Renaissance
• The Medici family was so powerful because when they got the man elected to be a pop he made the Medici bank the bank of the Vatican which was the most powerful institution in Southern Europe.
• Giovanni de Medici was Cosimo's father and he was the one who started the bank and got the Pope elected
• Cosimo was the one built the great dome in Florence
• The Medici name is now forever tied to the Medici family so their legacy lives of today