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The chapel's altar depicts the three magi cavorting with the Medicis themselves. The Medici family members get to stand closer to the magi than even the pope, who is also depicted (Cosimo was Pope Pius II's private banker). (Cosimo's great-grandson became a pope himself, so the Medicis eventually fully co-opted religious authority under their political control)
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