medici
4 movies and shows
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Wed, 04 Feb 2004
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history -- the European Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world.
Lorenzino de' Medici
Fri, 29 Nov 1935
Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.
Nostradamus and the Queen
Tue, 29 Sep 1953
An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and herself.
Rhino
Fri, 29 Sep 2017
An enactment of the last days of Alessandro de’ Medici, who was named the first Duke of Florence in 1532. De Medici, born to an African servant in the Medici household, was assassinated by his cousin Lorenzino five years into his rule. Picking up on Everson’s 2012 short film Rhinoceros, the film broadens the scope of the artist’s look at the movement and backstories of people of African descent.