their astonishing wealth made them one of the most powerful families on earth back in the 1500 s. they practically bankrolled the renaissance, paying for artists and scientists like michelangelo and galileo to remake the world. how many days a week are you here? they are the medici. so come in. and i m going to meet one of them. you are in a place that the florentine s call the casino de medici. and this is a place created as a scientific laboratory. the medici wanted all the bright minds in europe to come here and to create new things and to experiment with science with the arts, with spices. so who was just like you say, a think tank, or a taste tank. a think tank yes. exactly. expert art restorer daniela
expert art restorer daniela murphy is making me in for an audience with the most powerful mattice of them all. where is he? right there. meet cozumel primo de medici. he led the family in their dizzying height. this fresco depicts him being crowned grand duke of tuscany by the polk. he marries an extremely wealthy woman, a spanish princess. a lot of money, and also a lot of new spices from the new world. chocolate and coffee and peppers. that is when the tomato arrived? that is when it arrives. that completely altered italian cuisine. completely. medici money cultivated the city. in the arts, and the ideas that
europe to come here and to create new things and to experiment with science, with the arts, with food, with spices. so it was like you say a think tank. a think tank. or a taste tank. exactly. expert art restorer daniela murphy is sneaking me in for an audience with the most powerful medici of them all. where is he? he s right, right there. oh my. meet cosimo primo de medici. he led the family at their dizzying height in the 1500s. in this fresco undergoing restoration, he s become so powerful he s being crowned grand-duke of tuscany by the pope himself he marries an extremely wealthy woman, the spanish princess eleanor de toledo. not only does she bring a lot of money but she brings a lot of the new spices from the new world. the chocolates, the coffee, everything that is the cuisine. that s when the tomato
experiment with science, with the arts, with food, with spices. so it was like you say a think tank. a think tank. or a taste tank. exactly. expert art restorer daniela murphy is sneaking me in for an audience with the most powerful medici of them all. where is he? he s right, right there. oh my. meet cosimo primo de medici. he led the family at their dizzying height in the 1500s. in this fresco undergoing restoration, he s become so powerful he s being crowned grand-duke of tuscany by the pope himself he marries an extremely wealthy woman, the spanish princess eleanor de toledo. not only does she bring a lot of money but she brings a lot of the new spices from the new world. the chocolates, the coffee, everything that is the cuisine. that s when the tomato arrived? that s when it arrives more or less in that era then. which completely altered
1500s. they practically bankrolled the renaissance, paying for artists and scientists like michelangelo and galileo to remake the world. tucci: how many days a week are you here? they are the medici. so come in. and i m going to meet one of them. you are in a place that the florentines call the casino dei medici . and this is a place created as a scientific laboratory the medici wanted all the bright minds in europe to come here and to create new things and to experiment with science, with the arts, with food, with spices. so it was like you say a think tank. a think tank. or a taste tank. exactly. expert art restorer daniela murphy is sneaking me in for an audience with the most powerful medici of them all. where is he? he s right, right there. oh my. meet cosimo primo de medici.