The House of Medici Trivia Quiz
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This Italian city served as the home base for the Medici family's rise to power during the Renaissance.
Difficulty: Easy- Florence
- Venice
- Rome
- Milan
The Medici Bank handled the sale of these controversial church documents that helped finance St. Peter's Basilica and sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Difficulty: Medium- Papal bulls
- Indulgences
- Benefices
- Dispensations
This manager of the Medici Bank's Bruges branch made disastrous loans to Charles the Bold of Burgundy, contributing to the bank's eventual collapse.
Difficulty: Hard- Angelo Tani
- Tommaso Portinari
- Giovanni Tornabuoni
- Francesco Sassetti
The Medici family initially built their fortune through this profession before becoming rulers.
Difficulty: Easy- Textile trading
- Banking
- Shipbuilding
- Winemaking
This rival Florentine banking family, whose name means stream or brook in Italian, was the main competitor of the Medici before their conspiracy failed.
Difficulty: Medium- The Strozzi
- The Albizzi
- The Bardi
- The Pazzi
This elaborate entertainment, featuring mechanical wonders and mythological scenes, was performed at Medici weddings and influenced the development of theater.
Difficulty: Hard- Commedia dell'arte
- Sacra rappresentazione
- Trionfi (triumphal entries)
- Masque
This artistic and cultural movement, funded heavily by the Medici, transformed European art, literature, and thought.
Difficulty: Easy- The Enlightenment
- The Reformation
- The Renaissance
- The Baroque Period
Cosimo de' Medici commissioned this artist to paint a famous fresco cycle in the Medici Chapel depicting the Journey of the Magi.
Difficulty: Medium- Benozzo Gozzoli
- Fra Angelico
- Filippo Lippi
- Andrea Mantegna
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