| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 340 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance ; volume 16 |
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Rulers & elites ; v. 16.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 examination of global practices in zoological collecting, and cultural uses of animals. The Medici's activities as collectors of exotic species, the menageries they established and their deployment of animals in the ceremonial life of the court and in their art are examined in relation to this wider global perspective. The book seeks to nuance the myth promoted by the Medici themselves that theirs was the most successful princely seraglio in early modern Europe"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Medici, House of.
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| SUBJECT |
Medici, House of fast |
| Subject |
Wild animal collecting -- Italy -- Florence -- History
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Animals and civilization -- Italy -- Florence
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Animals -- Symbolic aspects -- Italy -- Florence -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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Animals and civilization
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Animals -- Symbolic aspects
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Wild animal collecting
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Italy -- Florence
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018042974 |
| ISBN |
9789004371132 |
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9004371133 |
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