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    Tehran (Iran)

Updated Wednesday, 9June2021-22: 50

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A family of Florentine bankers polished the Renaissance by sponsoring the work of the best artists of the time.

Donatello, Botticcelli or Leonardo Da Vinci dazzled the West thanks to the bottomless checkbook of the Medici.

Six centuries later, a dynasty that emerged on the sandy shores of the Persian Gulf, a region based on large hydrocarbon reserves, has set out to dazzle the East, and the entire world as well.

The

Al Thani

, the ruling family of Qatar,

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