Can anyone please help me with these questions. They refer to the Medici Documen

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Can anyone please help me with these questions. They refer to the Medici Documentary

1) How did Cosimo, Brunelleschi, and Florence contribute to the birth of the Renaissance?
2 What was unique about Cosimo, Brunelleschi, and Florence? Can anyone please help me with these questions. They refer to the Medici Documentary

1) How did Cosimo, Brunelleschi, and Florence contribute to the birth of the Renaissance?
2 What was unique about Cosimo, Brunelleschi, and Florence? Can anyone please help me with these questions. They refer to the Medici Documentary

Florence contribute to the birth of the Renaissance?
2 What was unique about Cosimo, Brunelleschi, and Florence?
2 What was unique about Cosimo, Brunelleschi, and Florence?

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1) Most historians agree that the ideas that characterized the Renaissance had their origin in late 13th century Florence, in particular with the writings of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), as well as the painting of Giotto di Bondone (1267–1337).[17] Some writers date the Renaissance quite precisely; one proposed starting point is 1401, when the rival geniuses Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi competed for the contract to build the bronze doors for the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral (Ghiberti won). Others see more general competition between artists and polymaths such as Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, and Masaccio for artistic commissions as sparking the creativity of the Renaissance. Yet it remains much debated why the Renaissance began in Italy, and why it began when it did. Accordingly, several theories have been put forward to explain its origins.

During Renaissance, money and art went hand in hand. Artists depended totally on patrons while the patrons needed money to sustain genuises. Wealth was brought to Italy in 14th, 15th and 16th century by expanding trade into Asia and Europe. Silver mining in Tyrol increased the flow of money. Luxuries from the Eastern world, brought during Crusades made the prosperity of Genoa and Venice.

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