Medici Women : : Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I /

Medici Women : : Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I / / Gabrielle Langdon.

The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist ruler, Duke Cosimo and his consort, Eleonora di Toledo, and was part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to e...

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Langdon, Gabrielle,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Bloodlines: Portraits of Maria Salviati de' Medici by Bronzino and Pontormo
  • 2. Declarations of Dynasty: The State Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo
  • 3. 'These tender and well-born plants': Young Daughters and Wards of Cosimo and Eleonora
  • 4. A 'Medici' Papacy and a Counter-Reformation in Portraiture: Allori's Giulia d'Alessandro de' Medici
  • 5. The New Medicean Cosmos: Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara
  • 6. Damnatio Memoriae: Isabella de' Medici Orsini, 'La stella di casa Medici'
  • 7. Up Close and Personal: Patronage and the Miniature Eleonora ('Dianora') di Toledo de' Medici
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • Terminology and Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Photograph Credits
  • Index

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