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Florentine merchant-bankers publicly demonstrated their vast wealth and great piety through the large and elaborate canvases they commissioned, and often through the ornate gilded frames they had made for them, and they demonstrated their refinement and exquisite taste by employing master artists who were known throughout Italy for their genius.

David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

Florentine merchant-bankers publicly demonstrated their vast wealth and great piety through the large and elaborate canvases they commissioned, and often through the ornate gilded frames they had made for them, and they demonstrated their refinement and exquisite taste by employing master artists who were known throughout Italy for their genius.

David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

Florentine merchant-bankers publicly demonstrated their vast wealth and great piety through the large and elaborate canvases they commissioned, and often through the ornate gilded frames they had made for them, and they demonstrated their refinement and exquisite taste by employing master artists who were known throughout Italy for their genius.

David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

Politicians, like merchant-bankers, pull their resources. paul hill

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008

Here he lived from 1843, when he married Miss Appleton, a daughter of one of the wealthiest merchant-bankers of Boston, until his death by pneumonia in March, 1882.

Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 1881

According to Felipe Ruiz Martin, the Spanish purchasers of juros had stopped providing the capital necessary to the operations of the Genoese merchant-bankers as accredited moneylenders to the crown.

Crooks and Liars 2010