HIST 285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: House Of Medici, Technical Drawing, Andrea Del Verrocchio
17 Oct 2016
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Court patronage - wealthy families who ran city-states: had money, power, waged war, etc, each court had their own needs and agenda, funded engineers, artists, architects. Medici family very wealthy, had moons of jupiter named for them by da vinci. Machiavelli and da vinci: da vinci. Argued that the sun was the center of the solar system. Noted that the other plants (jupiter) had moons. Funded by the medici family: machiavelli. Was not in good favor with the medici. Da vinci and machiavelli worked together on occasion. City states florence, rome, etc: problems east-ottoman turks, north french, at war, needed military technology, people who could p(cid:396)oduce this we(cid:396)e (cid:862)sitti(cid:374)" p(cid:396)ett(cid:455)(cid:863) Warfare: 40 ft. crossbow operated by single person. Mechanical duck that would walk across stage and lay eggs. Civil: cathedrals, aqueducts, plumbing, roads, and other major improvements. Dynastic displays: cathedrals show of power, giant statues.
