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The Medici Women

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Author : Natalie R. Tomas
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-05

The Medici Women written by Natalie R. Tomas and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.

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.

The Medici Women

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Author : Natalie Tomas
language : en
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2003

The Medici Women written by Natalie Tomas and has been published by Gower Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Earlier studies on the Medici family and its women have provided biographical details but this volume is the first for many years that focuses upon how and why their gender affected their access to power and the manner in which those women understood and exercised that power.

Medici Women

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Author : Gabrielle Langdon
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01

Medici Women written by Gabrielle Langdon and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Art categories.

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.

The Women Of The Medici

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Author : Yvonne Maguire
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-02

The Women Of The Medici written by Yvonne Maguire and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with History categories.

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.

Medici Women

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Author : Judith C Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-01

Medici Women written by Judith C Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-01 with Nobility categories.

Medici Women As Cultural Mediators 1533 1743

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Author : Christina Strunck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Medici Women As Cultural Mediators 1533 1743 written by Christina Strunck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.

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.

Lucrezia Tornabuoni De Medici And The Medici Family In The Fifteenth Century

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Author : Maria Grazia Pernis
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006

Lucrezia Tornabuoni De Medici And The Medici Family In The Fifteenth Century written by Maria Grazia Pernis and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Florence (Italy) categories.

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.