The original crime family didn't sell drugs—they bought Michelangelo.
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.
Production
Lavish Florence location shoots that make you weep for your apartment
Writing
Narrative structure treating banking like a blood sport
Director
Justin Hardy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The production secured unprecedented access to the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, closed to most film crews for decades.
The documentary's framing of patronage as 'soft power' influenced later prestige dramas like The Borgias and Medici: Masters of Florence.
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