<sod>[[File:Donatello - David - Florença.jpg|thumb|Donatello's David, a Medici commission|297x297px]]Cosimo was also noted for his patronage of culture and the arts during the Renaissance, liberally spending the family fortune (which his astute business sense considerably increased) to enrich Florence. According to [[Salviati]]'s{{disambiguation needed|date=March 2016}} ''Zibaldone'', Cosimo stated: "All those things have given me the greatest satisfaction and contentment  because they are not only for the honor of God but are likewise for my own remembrance. For fifty years, I have done nothing else but earn money and spend money; and it became clear that spending money gives me greater pleasure than earning it."<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first= F.H.|year=1948|title=The taste of angels, a history of art collecting from Rameses to Napoleon|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown|pages=65–66}}</ref><eod>
<sod>[[File:Donatello - David - Florença.jpg|thumb|Donatello's "David", a Medici commission.]]<eod>