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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.

Women --- Portraits, Italian --- Portrait painting, Italian --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Italian portrait painting --- Italian portraits --- History --- Cosimo --- Medici, House of --- Medici, Cosimo I de', --- De' Medici, Cosimo I, --- Côme --- Art patronage. --- de' Medici, Cosimo --- de Medici, Cosimo --- Italy --- Florence

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In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped Cosimo would act as figurehead, leaving the senate to manage political affairs. But Cosimo never acted as a puppet. Instead, by the time of his death in 1574, he had stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders while doubling his territory, attracted an array of scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and, most importantly, dissipated the perennially fractious politics of Florentine life. Gregory Murry argues that these triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion. Drawing on a wide variety of archival and published sources, he examines how Cosimo and his propagandists successfully crafted an image of Cosimo as a legitimate sacral monarch. Murry posits that both the propaganda and practice of sacral monarchy in Cosimo's Florence channeled preexisting local religious assumptions as a way to establish continuities with the city's republican and renaissance past. In The Medicean Succession, Murry elucidates the models of sacral monarchy that Cosimo chose to utilize as he deftly balanced his ambition with the political sensitivities arising from existing religious and secular traditions.

Monarchy --- Divine right of kings. --- Higher law --- Kings, Divine right of --- Authority --- Prerogative, Royal --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- History --- Cosimo --- Medici, House of. --- Medici, Cosimo I de', --- De' Medici, Cosimo I, --- Côme --- Florence (Italy) --- Tuscany (Italy) --- Toscana (Italy) --- Regione toscana (Italy) --- Toscane (Italy) --- Region of Tuscany (Italy) --- Tuscany Region (Italy) --- Tuscany (Grand Duchy) --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Florence (Tuscany) --- Politics and government --- Kings and rulers --- de' Medici, Cosimo --- de Medici, Cosimo

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Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and representing the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this "Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici" provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, with special emphasis on Cosimo I's education and intellectual interests, cultural policies, political vision, institutional reforms, diplomatic relations, religious beliefs, military entrepreneurship, and dynastic concerns.

Kings and rulers --- Cosimo --- Medici, House of. --- Florence (Italy) --- Tuscany (Italy) --- History --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Heads of state --- Queens --- de' Medici, Cosimo --- de Medici, Cosimo --- Toscana (Italy) --- Regione toscana (Italy) --- Toscane (Italy) --- Region of Tuscany (Italy) --- Tuscany Region (Italy) --- Tuscany (Grand Duchy) --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Florence (Tuscany) --- Medici, de', Cosimo I --- Cosme --- Florence (Italie)

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#BIBC:ruil --- 912:930 --- 930.85.44 <45> --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance--Italië --- 930.85.44 <45> Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance--Italië --- Art, Renaissance --- Cartography --- Renaissance --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Renaissance art --- History --- Cosimo --- Gregory --- Boncompagni, Ugo, --- Gregorio --- Gregorius --- Medici, Cosimo I de', --- De' Medici, Cosimo I, --- Côme --- Florence (Italy) --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome (Italy : Commune) --- Rome (Italy : Governatorato) --- Rūmah (Italy) --- Roma (Italy) --- Rom (Italy) --- Rím (Italy) --- Rzym (Italy) --- Comune di Roma (Italy) --- Rome --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Forence (Tuscany) --- Court and courtiers. --- Grégoire --- Florence (Tuscany) --- de' Medici, Cosimo --- de Medici, Cosimo --- Rome (Italy : Comune)

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Vermeer, ou "le sphinx de Delft". Cette expression, forgée au XIXe siècle, a figé la personnalité de Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) dans une pose énigmatique et solitaire. Cet ouvrage original permet au contraire de découvrir que ce génie universel s'inscrivait dans un riche réseau d'influences, très loin du splendide isolement avec lequel il fut longtemps associé. La scène de genre élégante hollandaise connaît son âge d'or vers 1650-1680. Cette peinture, mise en scène luxueuse d'activités qui n'ont de quotidiennes que le nom, permet à la République des Provinces-Unies de s'affirmer face aux monarchies. Vermeer en est l'un des maîtres, aux côtés de Gérard Dou, Gerard ter Borch, Frans van Mieris, Gabriel Metsu, Pieter de Hooch... Ces peintres, actifs à Leyde, Deventer, Amsterdam ou Delft, ont eu connaissance du travail des uns et des autres. Leurs rapports alternent hommages, citations détournées, métamorphoses. Vues de la sorte, les sublimations de Vermeer prennent un sens nouveau : celui de ses rejets et de ses admirations.

Vermeer, Johannes --- Catalogues d'exposition. --- Painting --- genre painters --- genre [visual works] --- anno 1600-1699 --- Netherlands --- Painting, Dutch --- Genre painting, Dutch --- Genre painting --- Peinture hollandaise --- Peinture de genre hollandaise --- Peinture de genre --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- genres --- iconografie --- techniek --- kunsthandel --- De Monconys, Balthasar --- Medici, Cosimo de --- 17de eeuw --- Noordelijke Nederlanden --- Holland --- Painters --- Professional relationships --- History --- Vermeer, Johannes, --- Exhibitions. --- De' Medici, Cosimo (I) --- Genre painting, Dutch - 17th century - Exhibitions --- Painters - Professional relationships - Netherlands - History - 17th century - Exhibitions. --- Vermeer, Johannes, - 1632-1675 - Exhibitions. --- Vermeer, Johannes, - 1632-1675 --- genres. --- iconografie. --- techniek. --- kunsthandel. --- Vermeer, Johannes. --- De Monconys, Balthasar. --- De' Medici, Cosimo (I). --- 17de eeuw. --- Noordelijke Nederlanden. --- Holland. --- genre pictures