Filippo Strozzi the Elder
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Filippo Strozzi the Elder (4 July 1428 – 14 May 1491) was an Italian banker and statesman, a member of the affluent Strozzi family of Florence.
He was born in Florence to Matteo Strozzi (son of Simone Strozzi and Andreina Rondinelli) and Alessandra Macinghi (daughter of Filippo Macinghi).[1] He was banned by the Medici as a young man, together with all his family, due to the opposition of Palla Strozzi against Cosimo de' Medici. He moved to Naples,[2] and here he gained a renowned status as a banker.
When he returned to Florence he commissioned Benedetto da Maiano for the construction of the famous family palace; however, he died before the completion of the works, in 1534.[2] He also had Maiano, along with Filippino Lippi, build a notable chapel in the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella. Completed in 1502, it houses Strozzi's remains.
Family
[edit]He married two times, and produced 12 children.
Fiammetta Adimari
[edit]With Fiammetta Adimari (in 1466), daughter of Donato Adimari, who gave him five children:
- Alfonso (1467–1534)
- Lucrezia (1469–1481)
- Alessandro (1471–1473)
- Leonora (1472–1473)
- Maria
Salvaggia Gianfigliazzi
[edit]With Salvaggia Gianfigliazzi,[1] daughter of Bartolommeo Gianfigliazzi (in 1477), who gave him:
- Lorenzo (1482–1549), who founded the line of the Princes of Forano[1]
- Fiammetta (b. 1476)
- Gian Battista (died 1484)
- Alessandra
- Caterina
- Lucrezia (b. 1487)
- Gian Battista, best known as Filippo Strozzi the Younger (1489–1538),[1] husband of Clarice de' Medici
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Smithers, Tamara (2016). Michelangelo in the New Millennium: Conversations about Artistic Practice, Patronage and Christianity. BRILL. pp. 56, 60. ISBN 9789004313637.
- ^ a b Art and Love in Renaissance Italy. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2008. p. 127. ISBN 9781588393005.
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