portraits of power, love and betrayal from the court of Duke Cosimo I /
Gabrielle Langdon
Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
c2006
xv, 372 p., [64] p. of plates :
ill. (some col.)
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index
Introduction -- Bloodlines: Portraits of Maria Salviati de' Medici by Bronzino and Pontormo -- Declarations of Dynasty: The State Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo -- `These tender and well-born plants': Young Daughters and Wards of Cosimo and Eleonora -- A `Medici' Papacy and a Counter-Reformation in Portraiture: Allori's Giulia d'Alessandro de' Medici -- The New Medicean Cosmos: Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara -- Damnatio Memoriae: Isabella de' Medici Orsini, `La stella de casa Medici' -- Up Close and Personal: Patronage and the Miniature Eleonora ('Dianora') di Toledo de' Medici -- Epilogue