Medici Women

Author : Gabrielle Langdon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802038258

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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 part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to establish legitimacy and prestige for the new sixteenth-century Florentine court. In this engaging and original study, Gabrielle Langdon analyses selected portraits of women by Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Alessandro Allori, and other masters. She defines their function as works of art, as dynastic declarations, and as encoded documents of court culture and propaganda, illuminating Cosimo's conscious fashioning of his court portraiture in imitation of the great courts of Europe. Langdon explores the use of portraiture as a vehicle to express Medici political policy, such as with Cosimo's Hapsburg and Papal alliances in his bid to be made Grand Duke with hegemony over rival Italian princes. Stories from archives, letters, diaries, chronicles, and secret ambassadorial briefs, open up a world of fascinating, personalities, personal triumphs, human frailty, rumour, intrigue, and appalling tragedies. Lavishly illustrated, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I is an indispensable work for anyone with a passion for Italian renaissance history, art, and court culture.

Author : Natalie R. Tomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885836

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The Medici Women by Natalie R. Tomas Pdf

The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe. Tomas takes a feminist approach that examines the experience of the Medici women within a critical framework of gender analysis, rather than biography. Using the relationship between gender and power as a vantage point, she analyzes the Medici women's uses of power and influence over time. She also analyzes the varied contemporary reactions to and representation of that power, and the manner in which the women's actions in the political sphere changed over the course of the century between republican and ducal rule (1434-1537). The narrative focuses especially on how women were able to exercise power, the constraints placed upon them, and how their gender intersected with the exercise of power and influence. Keeping the historiography to a minimum and explaining all unfamiliar Italian terms, Tomas makes her narrative clear and accessible to non-specialists; thus The Medici Women appeals to scholars of women's studies across disciplines and geographical boundaries.

Author : Judith C Brown,Giovanna Benadusi,Monica Chojnacka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Nobility
ISBN : 0772721807

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Medici Women by Judith C Brown,Giovanna Benadusi,Monica Chojnacka Pdf

Author : Taylor & Francis Group,Yvonne Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367271435

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The Women of the Medici by Taylor & Francis Group,Yvonne Maguire Pdf

When this book was first published in 1927 there was a dearth of material written in English about the leading women of Florence at the time of the Renaissance. This volume, based primarily on their own letters, filled that gap. As well as discussing the characters and domestic life of these influential women, the book includes many of their most significant letters.

Author : Yvonne Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000012446

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The Women of the Medici by Yvonne Maguire Pdf

When this book was first published in 1927 there was a dearth of material written in English about the leading women of Florence at the time of the Renaissance. This volume, based primarily on their own letters, filled that gap. As well as discussing the characters and domestic life of these influential women, the book includes many of their most significant letters.

Author : Stefanie Solum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536493

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"Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence " by Stefanie Solum Pdf

Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de? Medici?s impact on the visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman?s contributions to the visual arts of fifteenth-century Florence. This focused investigation of the Medici family?s domestic altarpiece, Filippo Lippi?s Adoration of the Christ Child, is broad in its ramifications. Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power in which Lippi?s painting was originally embedded, author Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played little part in actively shaping visual culture during the Florentine Quattrocento. She uses visual evidence never before brought to bear on the topic to reveal that Lucrezia Tornabuoni - shrewd power-broker, pious poetess, and mother of the 'Magnificent' Lorenzo de? Medici - also had a profound impact on the visual arts. Lucrezia emerges as a fascinating key to understanding the ways in which female lay religiosity created the visual world of Renaissance Florence. The Medici case study establishes, at long last, a robust historical basis for the assertion of women?s agency and patronage in the deeply patriarchal and artistically dynamic society of Quattrocento Florence. As such, it offers a new paradigm for the understanding, and future study, of female patronage during this period.

Author : Mark Strage
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058018873

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Women of Power by Mark Strage Pdf

Author : Langdon, Gabrielle
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024924527

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Decorum in Portraits of Medici Women at the Court of Cosimo I, 1537-1574 [microform] by Langdon, Gabrielle Pdf

the court portraitist in 1549. Its ends were consistently held to be rhetorical. Leonardo's writings circulated in Florentine circles. Moreover, in Chapters III to VII, the portrait studies, his artistic legacy was manifest in Bronzino's work.

Author : Maria Grazia Pernis,Laurie Adams
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820476455

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Lucrezia Tornabuoni De' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century by Maria Grazia Pernis,Laurie Adams Pdf

Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century is a fresh, new biography of a Renaissance woman who lived during the heyday of Medici power. A remarkable person in her own right, the author of religious poems and sacred narratives, as well as an accomplished businesswoman, Lucrezia was the mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the grandmother of two popes, and the great-great grandmother of Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. This glimpse of her life and times is a window onto the political intrigues and intellectual achievements of Medici Florence.

Author : Una McIlvenna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317059318

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Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici by Una McIlvenna Pdf

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own Machiavellian purposes. Branded a 'cabal of cuckoldry' by a contemporary critic, these women were involved in scandals that have encouraged a perception, which continues in much academic literature, of the late Valois court as debauched and corrupt. Rather than trying to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, Una McIlvenna here focuses on representations of the scandals in popular culture and print, and on the collective portrayal of the women in the libelous and often pornographic literature that circulated information about the court. She traces the origins of this material to the all-male intellectual elite of the parlementaires: lawyers and magistrates who expressed their disapproval of Catherine's political and religious decisions through misogynist pamphlets and verse that targeted the women of her entourage. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici reveals accusations of poisoning and incest to be literary tropes within a tradition of female defamation dating to classical times that encouraged a collective and universalizing notion of women as sexually voracious, duplicitous and, ultimately, dangerous. In its focus on manuscript and early print culture, and on the transition from a world of orality to one dominated by literacy and textuality, this study has relevance for scholars of literary history, particularly those interested in pamphlet and libel culture.

Author : Leonie Frieda
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063235915

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Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda Pdf

The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.

Author : Cynthia Lawrence
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271019697

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Women and Art in Early Modern Europe by Cynthia Lawrence Pdf

While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.

Author : Alice E. Sanger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351957014

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Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany by Alice E. Sanger Pdf

Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries in relation to issues of gender. Through a series of case studies carefully chosen to highlight key roles and key interventions of Medici women, this book embraces the diversity of their activities, from their public appearances at the centre of processionals such as the bridal entrata, to the commissioning and collecting of art objects and the overseeing of architectural projects, to an array of other activities to which these women applied themselves with particular force and vigour: regular and special devotions, visits to churches and convents, pilgrimages and relic collecting. Positing Medici women’s patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice E. Sanger examines the specific religious context in which the Medici grand duchesses operated, arguing that these patrons’ cultural interests responded not only to aesthetic concerns and the demands of personal faith, but also to dynastic interests, issues of leadership and authority, and the needs of Catholic reform. By examining the religious dimensions of the grand duchesses' art patronage and collecting activities alongside their visually resonant devotional and public acts, Sanger adds a new dimension to the current scholarship on Medici women’s patronage.

Author : Richard Stapleford
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271056418

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Lorenzo De' Medici at Home by Richard Stapleford Pdf

"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Christina Strunck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 8836622380

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Medici Women as Cultural Mediators (1533-1743) by Christina Strunck Pdf

The vertiginous social ascent of the Florentine Medici dynasty was assisted and secured through prestigious marriage alliances. In the sixteenth century, when this family of bankers had only just managed to turn the Republic of Florence into a principate, foreign brides from noble families were not only potential political allies, but also important status symbols. Similarly, the conclusion of marriage matches between Medici women and rulers of European states reflected the new international standing of the dynasty. The numerous princesses who crossed the borders in this "elite traffic in women" imported the cultural traditions of their birthplace and amalgamated them with those of their new home countries in order to serve personal and cultural, political and dynastic interests. This book explores the ways in which Medici women contributed to the cultural exchange among the courts of Europe, including not only exchange in the visual arts, music and literature, but also economic, political and religious exchange.