The Antinoris Still Patron the Arts in Florence, Six Centuries Later

The Antinori family, whose name appears in Florentine records alongside the Medici as patrons of Renaissance art, remains active as collectors and commissioners in contemporary art, according to the Financial Times. The family's wine business, rooted in Tuscany since 1385, has provided the financial foundation for their sustained engagement with the visual arts across six centuries.

The Financial Times notes that the Antinoris, like other wealthy merchant families of medieval Florence, used art patronage as both cultural practice and social assertion—a pattern that persists in their modern collecting activities. The article frames their continued involvement as a link between the Renaissance tradition of aristocratic patronage and contemporary collecting practices.