1. Giovanni Tornabuoni was an Italian merchant, banker and patron of the arts from Florence.
11 Facts About Giovanni Tornabuoni
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Giovanni's father Francesco Tornabuoni was a successful entrepreneur and in 1427 the sixth largest taxpayer in Florence.
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Giovanni Tornabuoni had three wives and eight children, of whom the two youngest, Lucrezia and Giovanni Tornabuoni, were the most famous.
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Giovanni Tornabuoni is therefore the uncle of Lorenzo de' Medici.
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Giovanni Tornabuoni had strong connections with the House of Medici, being the brother of Lucrezia Tornabuoni, and therefore Lorenzo il Magnifico's uncle.
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Around 1475, Giovanni Tornabuoni commissioned a portrait of his sister by Domenico Ghirlandaio, which is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
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Giovanni Tornabuoni was Florentine ambassador in the Papal court in 1480 and 1484, and gonfaloniere di Giustizia in 1482.
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Giovanni Tornabuoni had been already portrayed by Ghirlandaio in the Sistine Chapel in the Vocation of Andrew and Paul.
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Piero had no talent for running the bank and depended on his secretary and his great-uncle Giovanni Tornabuoni to handle everything.
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In 1494 Giovanni Tornabuoni succeeded Francesco Sassetti in the direction of the Medici Bank.
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Giovanni Tornabuoni is mentioned in the video game Assassin's Creed II as a tutor of protagonist Ezio Auditore.