Medici Family Quotes

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.

I have been intrigued by Catherine de Medici and the legends surrounding her for a long time.

I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.

Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.