Which best explains how the medicis were able to convince the catholic church to become a patron of the arts during the renaissance? the medicis became church leaders and pushed the church to support art. the medicis gave the church luxury goods in exchange for supporting art. the medicis gave the church textile goods in exchange for supporting art. the medicis became government leaders and pushed the church to support art..

The answer is: The Medicis became church leaders and pushed the church to support art. 

The Medici turn out to be leaders of Christendom over their two well-known 16th century popes, Leo X and Clement VII. They were large supporters of the arts who ordered masterpieces for instance, Michelangelo's The Last Judgment; though, their supremacies accorded with dilemmas for the Vatican, together with Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation and the notorious sack of Rome in 1527.

d: their own individual powers within the new goverment