The cultural world of Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena / edited and with an introduction by Konrad Eisenbichler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eisenbichler, Konrad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eleonora, di Toledo, Duchess, consort of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1522-1562.

Eleonora.

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.

Cosimo.

Nobility--Italy--Florence--Biography.

Nobility.

Italy--Florence.

Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.

Florence (Italy).

Tuscany (Italy)--History--1434-1737.

Tuscany (Italy).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

1 Veni, sponsa. Love and Politics at the Wedding of Eleonora di Toledo / Mary A. Watt 18

2 A 'Laura' for Cosimo: Bronzino's Eleonora di Toledo with her Son Giovanni / Gabrielle Langdon 40

3 La fecundissima Signora Duchessa: The Courtly Persona of Eleonora di Toledo and the Iconography of Abundance / Bruce L. Edelstein 71

4 A Duchess' Place at Court: The Quartiere di Eleonora in the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence / Ilaria Hoppe 98

5 Eleonora and her 'Famous Sisters.' The Tradition of 'Illustrious Women' in Paintings for the Domestic Interior / Paola Tinagli 119

6 Eleonora di Toledo among the Famous Women: Iconographic Innovation after the Conquest of Siena / Pamela J. Benson 136

7 Eleonora di Toledo's Chapel: Lineage, Salvation and the War Against the Turks / Robert W. Gaston 157

8 Los scholares son cosa de su excelentia, como lo es toda la Compania: Eleonora di Toledo and the Jesuits / Chiara Franceschini 181

9 The Burial Attire of Eleonora di Toledo / Mary Westerman Bulgarella 207

10 La Ill.ma Sig.ra Duchessa felice memoria: The Posthumous Eleonora di Toledo / Janet Cox-Rearick 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754637743

OCLC:

52334788