It was primarily "d. wealthy merchant families such as the Medici and popes such as Julius II" who paid the great artists and architects of the Renaissance to create their masterpieces, since they had money to spare.
Right up there with the men and equal rights
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Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859
