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Author Langdon, Gabrielle, author.

Title Medici women : portraits of power, love and betrayal from the court of Duke Cosimo I / Gabrielle Langdon
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2006]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Contents ""Contents""; ""LIST OF 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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-347) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 -- Art patronage
Medici, House of -- Portraits
Medici, House of -- Art patronage
SUBJECT Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 fast
Medici, House of fast
Subject Portraits, Italian -- 16th century
Women -- Italy -- Florence -- Portraits
Women -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 16th century
Women -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography
Portrait painting, Italian -- 16th century
Women -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
ART -- History -- Renaissance.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Human Figure.
Art patronage
Portrait painting, Italian
Portraits, Italian
Women
Italy -- Florence
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Portraits
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442684560
1442684569