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

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

Gabrielle Langdon

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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 ...

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