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Essay heading: Artistic patronage and how important is it
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Among the greatest patrons were members of the powerful Medici family, who spent money on constructing churches and encouraging art. The works date from the time of Lorenzo de Medici whom Machiavelli called "the greatest patron of art and literature that any prince has ever been".
The Florentine government also transferred the responsibility for artistic projects to individual guilds...
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The guilds formed the basis of the city's political system. For example, during the fourteenth century, the Duomo and Baptistery were allocated to the Wool and Cloth Merchants respectively. The government also established "...guild rivalry as a powerful competitive spur to public patronage in Florence"...
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