1/4 The Medici: Makers of Modern Art

• The Medici: Makers of ...
First broadcast: Dec 2008.
Documentary in which Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting and architecture and created a world where masterpieces fetch millions today.
Without the money and patronage of the Medici we might never have heard of artists such as Donatello, Michelangelo or Botticelli. Graham-Dixon examines how a family of shadowy, corrupt businessmen, driven by greed and ambition, became the financial engine behind the Italian Renaissance.

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soundtrack, content, narrator...everything perfect.

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+Kirsch Rot ...Glady done (°V°) thanks for your appreciation !

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Thank you so much for this!!! One of my favorite documentaries. The presenter is great!!!

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Thanks for uploading the series. Love the presenter, just finished reading his biography on Caravaggio, brilliantly written.

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Ah, the only great artist we know murdered someone.

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My two grandsons are Medici live in Florida Tney are very interested in these Documentaries Beautiful and amazing The oldest one is going into medicine amazing with the name Medici Thank You

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Firenze e uno scrigno di meraviglie d arte ! A cielo aperto ed anche Racchiuse nei numerosi ben protetti edifici testimoni di secoli e secoli di storia. Bel documentario

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Though I love art, I have never been so into it till AGD appeared (at least broadcast in Cable). He makes you want to hear and learn.

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Fantastic..!! I love Graham Dixon's way of persenting Art expecially in this piece. He is extraodinary in explaining the importance of the Medici's family for the history and culture of the westrern world. Bravo, bravissimo..

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Andrew always interesting and informative entertaining

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Thank you for uploading this, great channel. Thanks!

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An excellent share and documentary! Thank you for uploading the four parts!

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Wonderful documentary, thank you so much for sharing!

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AGD now does some wonderful weekly ‘talks’ on art around the world. I’d recommend them to anyone interested in the subject. He’s inspired me to really get into it.

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I love ADG's work. If you could find the 1st episode of, "The High Art in The low Countries", all three would be accessible. Episode one has not been uploaded!

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I’ve been,enjoyed you’ve just made it complete. Next time back it’s art 🤔

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This is Great! just, how I wish they can attach the name of the artist, jargon, and time period in a corner... At least I don't know how to spell Ghiberti... When I saw the door, I think it's spectacular and its creator deserves to be remembered.

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He is remembered.

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maybe put on the closed captioning, it should show you the spelling lol

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I am from Argentina and i speak English, but i wonder where is his accent from? I love the way he speaks!!! My pronunciation is very american!!

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Benjamin Sinatra British writer and producer, art historian and broadcaster..born in London..

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***** Muchas gracias!!! Thank you very much i've figured myself he is from London! just like Andrew LLoy Webber!!!

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I am thinkig of change my pronunciation into British English!!! But i really love american!!!

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@@benjaminsinatra88 you can tell because all people from London seem touse all three of their names, whereas the rest of the UK most definetely does not

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Banco is bench...not a table. Tavolo is a table. Same idea though and great connection he makes. Well done! Oops, I mean bravo!! 👍

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we love ART painTers painTing drawing .... .

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Fonética rules!

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Wonderful documentary, but Graham-Dixon makes a disgraceful mistake at the end (ca. 14 mins) regarding the inscription over Cosimo's cell -- there is nothing to say that he purchased his salvation; it simply indicates that: "Pope Eugene IV .... spent a night here, where Cosimo de Medici, having beautifully constructed these cells, had himself often dwelled IN ORDER TO PROFIT FROM DISCUSSIONS WITH ANTONINUS" (the then Bishop of Florence and a Dominican). JFM

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What's the song? 0:30

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The medici balls is an David Star

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Is there anyone interested in buying the mystical and spiritual art collection of Nostradamus?

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The Met has a special exhibition on the Medici now.

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So, I guess Dante made the rules huh?

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Not one piece of art is worth anything in the sight of Truth.

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His name is NOT "Cheseray," it is Cesare (like the salad).

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this guy couldn't be more wrong lending money isn't a sin

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+jbmjbm21 Can't get rich lending money without interest.

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2:43 modern art = money laundering

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A poor guy that started a bank? Yeah right!

[@ingriddubbel8468]

The Medici were first wool traders. The business became successful and the bank was funded off that success. A poor man never founded a bank.

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8:39-8:50....absolutely false. A sloppy, irresponsible statement that is, if not a downright lie.

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tim5208686 you are wrong. it was in fact quite common that you could buy solvation. you could either give money to the church directly or you could pay for the building/decorating of churches.

[@realtyranny3310]

There were a variety of ways that a person could receive an indulgence (not "salvation"). One method was alms giving. (See Matthew 19:21 and Luke 21:1-4.) A donation to a monastery or church was a form of alms giving. Even then, the indulgence was theoretical; the person giving the donation had to have confessed whatever sin (if it was a mortal sin because venial sins don't require a confession) they were trying to cover with the indulgence, and be of a contrite heart and spirit, etc. That was Church doctrine and always has been. That is extremely different than "buying salvation". What he said was "absolutely false. A sloppy, irresponsible statement that is, if not a downright lie."

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Firstly the idea you are alluding to factual evidence of proceedings by referencing the bible is almost void in itself, but it was absolutely proven and as Katrin said common knowledge that the Catholic church had en masse warped the ideas and practice of indulgences into essentially a money spinning tactic of it own. The Reformation largely happened due to the common classes revolting against the hypocrisy of the church's tendencies (ie. the rich could do whatever they liked and and get away with it, where the lower classes could not) and Luther's attacks on the corrupt indulgence system via doctrinal and print media attacks.

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The scriptural references give an explanation for the idea of indulgences; they do not act as a source for 16th century central European church history. The Catholic church operated in several countries for several centuries. Mixing indulgences and alms giving became an issue in parts of the HRE and Italy only briefly in the 16th century as the Pope was looking to build new St. Peter's Basilica. The Reformation was (and this is the case with almost all revolutions) a top-down driven looting operation. It was not, as you suggest, a grassroots effort. And if, as you suggest, "the rich could do whatever they liked", why wasn't Henry 8th granted the annulment he sought? But back to the point, the video, Katrin, and you are incorrect. The Church was not "selling salvation".

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tim5208686 It might be a lie according to the Bible but people believed u could buy your salvation back then,there are many examples , eg The Pope put a bounty on Henry VIII that if anyone killed him theyd be guaranteed a place in heaven