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Isabella de Medici
Author | : Caroline P. Murphy |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780571266050 |
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Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Florence - that led to her death at the hands of her husband at the age of just thirty-four. She left behind a remarkable story, and as her legacy a son who became the best of the Orsini Dukes, immortalised by Shakespeare as Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. Caroline P. Murphy illuminates this often misunderstood figure, and in the process brings to life the home of creativity, the city of Florence itself.
Murder of a Medici Princess
Author | : Caroline Murphy |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195385830 |
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A vast treasure trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in Renaissance Italy, in this fast-paced narrative that reveals the culpability of her disapproving older brother in her murder by her jealous husband.
Medici Women
Author | : Gabrielle Langdon |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : 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.
Isabella de Medici
Author | : Caroline P. Murphy |
Publsiher | : Il Saggiatore |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9788842815402 |
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Isabella Orsini
Author | : Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2023-05-03 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783382323974 |
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Beyond Isabella
Author | : Sheryl E. Reiss |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art patronage |
ISBN | : 9780271097626 |
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The Medici Villas
Author | : Isabella Lapi Ballerini,Mario Scalini |
Publsiher | : Giunti Editore |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 880902995X |
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Women Composers
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Author | : Sylvia Glickman,Martha Furman Schleifer |
Publsiher | : G K Hall |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0783883145 |
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This is the first comprehensive historical overview of music created by women from the 9th through the 20th centuries. Each volume features 10-25 complete musical scores or complete movements from multi-movement compositions--most of which have been previously inaccessible. Expert scholars provide original essays about the composers, including biographical information, a discussion of the music in historical context, and critical analysis of each work. Entries also include bibliography, a list of works by the composer, and a discography.