The Medici family was definitely one of the richest dynasties in Renaissance Italy and perhaps they were the most influential patrons of the arts in history.

collected fine paintings and books and works of stone, and commissioned the magnificent Valois Tapestries that now belong to ...

The law, tolerantly enough, lets people give paintings to a museum ... Mortimer Caplin indicated that he was tiring of the Medici role. Henceforth, he declared, his field agents would insist ...