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The Medici: Makers of Modern Art (2008)

#1005 Documentary     Main

1 hour. BBC. Documentary in which Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting and architecture and created a world where masterpieces fetch millions today. Without the money and patronage of the Medici we might never have heard of artists such as Donatello, Michelangelo or Botticelli, and Graham-Dixon examines how a family of shadowy, corrupt businessmen, driven by greed and ambition, became the financial engine behind the Italian Renaissance.

Disk #1005 also contains: Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time