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This three-volume work by Julia Pardoe, the author of other books on French royalty, was originally published in 1852. In remarkable detail the books describe the colourful and controversial life of Marie de Medicis, who in 1600 married Henry IV of France after his previous marriage to Marguerite de Valois had been annulled to make way for this dynastic alliance. The consort's life both before and after her marriage was one of flamboyant living, political intrigue and gossip. The work is a complex biography, full of information on a redoubtable woman's life at the centre of European politics. Each volume is illustrated and annotated with references to original documents. This first volume examines Marie de Medicis' early life, Henry IV's marriage to Marguerite de Valois, and the period of history from 1572 until 1607.
Queens --- Marie de Médicis, --- France --- History --- Médicis, Marie de, --- De Médicis, Marie, --- Maria de' Medici, --- De' Medici, Maria, --- Medici, Maria de',
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Elle est grande, elle est hautaine, elle a le teint très blanc, un double menton, mauvais caractère, 27 ans déjà. En l'an 1600, Marie de Médicis épouse Henri IV. C'est un mariage d'argent : les Médicis sont une richissime famille de banquiers florentins devenus grands-ducs de Toscane. C'est un mariage politique : le Pape et l'Espagne veulent amarrer la France au catholicisme après 45 ans de troubles et de guerres religieuses. Entre Henri IV et Marie de Médicis, la vie conjugale devient souvent un enfer. Maîtresses, scènes de ménage, histoires d'argent ; Sully arbitre comme il peut. Quand Henri IV est assassiné, son fils Louis XIII n'a que 8 ans et demi. Marie de Médicis devient Régente. Elle met la France au pillage pour acheter la tranquillité des nobles, remplir les poches de ses favoris Leonora Galligaï et Concino Concini, et satisfaire une passion sans frein pour les diamants. Chassée du pouvoir par Louis XIII en 1617, elle est exilée au château de Blois, s'en évade par une échelle de corde, et fait deux années de suite la guerre à son fils. Elle se raccommode avec lui grâce à Richelieu, un jeune évêque dont elle fait la fortune et qui grâce à elle devient cardinal et premier ministre. Reine-Mère assagie et respectée, elle construit le Palais du Luxembourg à Paris, et commande à Rubens l'histoire de sa vie - un peu arrangée - en 24 tableaux. Mais elle a le démon de la jalousie et de l'intrigue. Richelieu est devenu trop puissant à son goût. Elle veut sa disgrâce, ne l'obtient pas, et, en 1631, s'enfuit du royaume de France, qu'elle quitte pour toujours. Onze ans d'exil et d'errances en Belgique, en Angleterre, en Allemagne où elle meurt dans la ville de Cologne. Onze ans de complots, négociant avec l'Espagne ennemie de la France, dressant contre Louis XIII son jeune frère Gaston d'Orléans avant de se brouiller aussi avec celui-ci. Elle meurt solitaire et dans la gêne en 1642, quelques mois avant Richelieu et Louis XIII.
Queens --- Biography --- Marie de Medicis --- Marie de Médicis, --- Marie de Medicis Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France --- Marie de Médicis, --- Marie de Médicis --- France --- Médicis, Marie de, --- De Médicis, Marie, --- Maria de' Medici, --- De' Medici, Maria, --- Medici, Maria de', --- History --- Reines --- Biographie --- Histoire --- Biography. --- biography [genre] --- Medici, de', Maria [Queen of France] --- Queens - France - Biography --- biography [general genre]
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Queens --- Marie de Médicis, --- Médicis, Marie de, --- De Médicis, Marie, --- Maria de' Medici, --- De' Medici, Maria, --- Medici, Maria de', --- France --- History --- Politics and government --- Marie de Médicis (reine de France ; 1573-1642) --- Biographies --- Politique et gouvernement --- 1589-1610
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Drawing --- Painting --- Graphic arts --- portraits --- court artists --- drawings [visual works] --- prints [visual works] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Rubens, Peter Paul --- Exhibitions --- Habsburg-dynastie --- adellijke personen --- portretten --- Medici, María de --- Titiaan --- 17de eeuw --- Frankrijk --- Italië --- Spanje --- De' Medici, María (koningin van Frankrijk) --- Rubens, Pierre Paul, 1577-1640 --- Expositions --- portretten. --- Habsburg-dynastie. --- adellijke personen. --- Rubens, Peter Paul. --- De' Medici, María (koningin van Frankrijk). --- Titiaan. --- 17de eeuw. --- Italië. --- Spanje. --- Frankrijk.
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"Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Medicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women's and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie's ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women's "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie's ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen's productions could challenge Henri IV's immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie's own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen's political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV's untimely death."--
Ballet --- Dance --- Pantomime --- History --- France --- Court and courtiers --- Bourbon monarchy. --- France. --- French court ballets. --- French. --- Henri IV. --- Louvre. --- Queen Marie de Médicis. --- dance studies. --- literary studies. --- musicology. --- political history. --- women’s and gender studies. --- Music --- Theatrical science --- Medici, de', Maria [Queen of France] --- Marie de Medicis, --- Knowledge --- Ballet. --- Relations with courts and courtiers. --- Marie de Médicis, --- Médicis, Marie de, --- De Médicis, Marie, --- Maria de' Medici, --- De' Medici, Maria, --- Medici, Maria de', --- 1589-1699
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geschiedenis --- Palais du Luxembourg (Parijs) --- verzameling María De Medici (Parijs) --- barok --- Medici, María de --- 17de eeuw --- Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642 --- Art patronage --- Exhibitions --- Paris. Palais du Luxembourg --- De' Medici, María (koningin van Frankrijk) --- De' Medici, María (koningin van Frankrijk). --- 17de eeuw. --- schilderkunst --- sculptuur --- Blomme, Alfons. --- Bosteels, Prosper. --- Boulez, Jules. --- Clerico, Emiel. --- Vuyst, Jos Nic de. --- Goedertier, José. --- Horenbant, Jozef. --- Van Belle, Karel. --- Verbaere, Herman. --- De Beule, Aloïs. --- Lemaître, Henri. --- Vyver, Maurits van de. --- Verbanck, Geo. --- 20ste eeuw. --- België.
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Maria de Medici [Queen of France] --- Painting, French --- Peinture française --- Marie de Médicis, --- Medici, de', Maria [Queen of France] --- Peinture française --- Marie de Médicis, --- Painting, Italian --- Art --- Peinture italienne --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- 7.034 --- CDL --- Art, European --- Symbolism in art --- Allegory (Art) --- Signs and symbols in art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Political aspects --- History --- Médicis, Marie de, --- De Médicis, Marie, --- Maria de' Medici, --- De' Medici, Maria, --- Medici, Maria de', --- Art patronage --- Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642 --- Art [European ] --- 17th century --- France --- Art, Primitive --- Marie de medicis (reine de france), 1573-1642
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" ... offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders.
Painting, Flemish. --- Painting --- Symbolism in art --- Painting, Dutch. --- Peinture flamande --- Peinture --- Symbolisme dans l'art --- Peinture hollandaise --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Snijders, Frans --- Medici, María de --- politiek --- schilderkunst --- symbolen --- huwelijk --- geweld --- vrouwen --- dieren --- iconografie --- Eyck, Jan van --- Brueghel, Pieter (de Oude) --- Rubens, Peter Paul --- 15de eeuw --- 16de eeuw --- 17de eeuw --- Noordelijke Nederlanden --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden --- Painting, Flemish --- Painting, Dutch --- Dutch painting --- Allegory (Art) --- Signs and symbols in art --- Art --- Oil painting --- Painting, Primitive --- Paintings --- Graphic arts --- Flemish painting --- huwelijk, echtpaar, ‘matrimonium’ --- kracht, geweld --- vrouw --- De' Medici, María (koningin van Frankrijk) --- politiek. --- schilderkunst. --- symbolen. --- huwelijk, echtpaar, ‘matrimonium’. --- kracht, geweld. --- vrouw. --- dieren. --- iconografie. --- van Eyck, Jan. --- Bruegel, Pieter I. --- Rubens, Peter Paul. --- Snijders, Frans. --- De' Medici, María (koningin van Frankrijk). --- 15de eeuw. --- 16de eeuw. --- 17de eeuw. --- Noordelijke Nederlanden. --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden. --- van Eyck, Jan --- Bruegel, Pieter I
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