Most of the show centers on Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574), plucked from a “junior” line of Medicis to become the Duke of Florence at age 17. But he knew what he was about.

Giovanni di Bicci, who advised his family to “stay out of the public eye,” died in 1429 and was succeeded at the bank by Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici, who did the opposite.

Pragmatic pacifists marshaled around Cosimo de'Medici. Maso degli Albizzi, patriach of his family, had two sons, Luca and Rinaldo. From a young age, Luca was friends with Cosimo de'Medici.

Masters of Florence (Medici season 1) charted the rise of Lorenzo’s grandfather, the banker and politician Cosimo de Medici (Richard Madden), after the murder of his father, Giovanni di Bicci de ...

But the saga of Cosimo de Medici also suggests there are limits to the control patrons have over the power of art. “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570” is on view at the ...

That guy, while famous, is not in this show. Richard Madden’s Cosimo de’ Medici is that Lorenzo’s grandfather. The Lorenzo on the show is just another Lorenzo de’ Medici (aka Lorenzo the ...

When Cosimo I de’ Medici, a 17-year-old from a lesser-known branch of Florence’s famed Medici family, came to power in 1537, the republic’s elite expected him to serve as a mere figurehead.

Bertoldo di Giovanni and collaborators Frieze for the Portico of the Medici Villa at Poggio a Caiano ... More (detail), ca. 1490 Glazed terracotta 22 7/8 x 571 1/4 inches Villa Medicea di Poggio a ...

Richard Madden played the dashing Cosimo de’Medici, a young man who has to inherit his intimidating father Giovanni’s empire after the older man’s sudden death in 1429.

During the 1420s, Luca declared his public allegiance to the Medici family, even marrying Cosimo's cousin. ... Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici, in 1476.