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Medici women : portraits of power, love and betrayal from the court of Duke Cosimo I / Gabrielle Langdon.
Fine Arts Library ND1318.2 .L35 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langdon, Gabrielle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medici, House of.
- Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
- Women--Italy--Florence--Portraits.
- Women.
- Medici, House of--Portraits.
- Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574--Art patronage.
- Cosimo.
- Medici, House of--Art patronage.
- Portraits, Italian--16th century.
- Portraits, Italian.
- Portrait painting, Italian--16th century.
- Portrait painting, Italian.
- Women--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Women--Italy--Florence--History--16th century.
- History.
- Art patronage.
- Italy--Florence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 372 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- 1 Bloodlines: Portraits of Maria Salviati de' Medici by Bronzino and Pontormo 23
- 2 Declarations of Dynasty: The State Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo 59
- 3 'These tender and well-born plants': Young Daughters and Wards of Cosimo and Eleonora 98
- 4 A 'Medici' Papacy and a Counter-Reformation in Portraiture: Allori's Giulia d'Alessandro de' Medici 121
- 5 The New Medicean Cosmos: Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara 137
- 6 Damnatio Memoriae: Isabella de' Medici Orsini, 'La stella di casa Medici' 146
- 7 Up Close and Personal: Patronage and the Miniature Eleonora ('Dianora') di Toledo de' Medici 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-347) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802038255
- OCLC:
- 62430497
- Publisher Number:
- 9780802038258
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