Exotic animals in the art and culture of the Medici court in Florence / / by Angelica Groom.
"The book examines the role rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family's reign first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examinati...
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| Superior document: | Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance, volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] 2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rulers & elites ;
v. 16. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages) :; illustrations (some color). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and global perspective of animal collecting and menageries
- Zoological collecting at the Medici court: practices of exchange
- And processes of procurement
- Menageries and aviaries in Medicean Florence
- The sport of the chase: "exotic hunts" at the Medici court
- Spectacles of slaughter and courtly pageants: exotic beasts
- As symbols of power and colonial ambitions
- Animal imagery in the service of political imaging
- Medici patronage and early modern naturalism: tensions
- Between scientific and decorative naturalism
- The Ambrogiana series of animal paintings.