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Classicist Bettany Hughes present this series about Renaissance Florence

Amongst the Medici: 22/02/2006

22/02/2006

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Synonymous with the Renaissance, why did the Medici family bank act as patron to artists?

4 Extra Debut. Synonymous with the Renaissance, why did the Medici family's bank act as patron to artists? With Bettany Hughes. From February 2006.

Classicist Bettany Hughes begins a new series about Renaissance Florence. 

1/3. The Medici are a name synonymous with the Renaissance, but why did these bankers act as patrons to artists such as Michelangelo and Donatello?

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