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Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I
Medici Women Portraits of Power Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I
Author: Gabrielle Langdon
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 part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to establish legitimacy and prestige for the new sixteen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802095268
ISBN-10: 0802095267
Publication Date: 9/29/2007
Pages: 388
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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