Florence 2023

Florence has a sorted history as its own republic, then ruled by the Duchy of Florence, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Napoleon, the Kingdom of Italy. But the biggest influence on Florence was the House of Medici, a powerful wealthy family (bankers - what else?). The Medici essentially funded the Renaissance Period commissioning such works of art as the Tomb of Lorenzo De Medici by Michelangelo, Botticelli's Birth of Venus, and the Duomo in Florence. But art was power at the time.