{"id":1110,"date":"2019-09-26T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2019-10-01T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T09:10:48","slug":"artist-seeking-medici-oil-at-12-x-16-in-on-22-x-15-in-bfk-rives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/26\/artist-seeking-medici-oil-at-12-x-16-in-on-22-x-15-in-bfk-rives\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Seeking Medici &#8211; Oil at 12 x 16 in. on 22 x 15 in. BFK Rives."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artist Seeking Medici &#8211; Oil at 12 x 16 in. on 22 x 15 in. BFK Rives.<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 1397 by Giovanni di Bicci de\u2019Medici the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medici_Bank\">Medici Bank<\/a>, and by extension dynasty, rose to prominence after acquiring the papal accounts. Soon the richest family in Europe, Giovanni\u2019s son,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici\"> Lorenzo \u2018The Magnificent\u2019<\/a> would help fund the Renaissance. Supporting artists like Botticelli, Da Vinci, and Michelengelo. Having spent more than half a billion dollars on public works by the time of his death in 1449 Lorenzo and his grandfather would leave a legacy of charity and artistic innovation. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little has changed. The wealthy, imitating by example, finance the majority of art today. This piece was created as a sort of advertisement. With the <a href=\"https:\/\/quotes.wsj.com\/index\/DJIA\">DJIA<\/a> at an all time high and wealthy benefactors abound one would hope to find someone of influence. I\u2019m no Michaelangelo but why should that matter.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Sources:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themedicifamily.com\/Lorenzo-de-Medici.html\">http:\/\/themedicifamily.com\/Lorenzo-de-Medici.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medici_Bank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medici_Bank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Seeking Medici &#8211; Oil at 12 x 16 in. on 22 x 15 in. BFK Rives. Founded in 1397 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[36,162],"tags":[959,944,18,960,958,943,953,920],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bfk-rives","category-oil","tag-artistseekingmedici","tag-bfkrives","tag-cartysewill","tag-funding","tag-medici","tag-oilpainting","tag-oilpaintingart","tag-renaissance","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0006.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}