The Women Of The Medici
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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.
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.
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.
The Deadly Sisterhood
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Author : Leonie Frieda
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-11-22
The Deadly Sisterhood written by Leonie Frieda and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-22 with History categories.
The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian. This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping tale involves inspired and corrupt monarchs, the finest thinkers, the most brilliant artists and the greatest beauties in Christendom. Here are the stories of its most remarkable women, who are all joined by birth, marriage and friendship and who ruled for a time in place of their men-folk: Lucrezia Turnabuoni (Queen Mother of Florence, the power behind the Medici throne), Clarice Orsini (Roman princess, feudal wife), Beatrice d'Este (Golden Girl of the Renaissance), Caterina Sforza (Lioness of the Romagna), Isabella d'Este (the Acquisitive Marchesa), Giulia Farnese ('la bella', the family asset), Isabella d'Aragona (the Weeping Duchess) and Lucrezia Borgia (the Virtuous Fury). The men play a secondary role in this grand saga; whenever possible the action is seen through the eyes of our heroines. These eight women experienced great riches, power and the warm smile of fortune, but they also knew banishment, poverty, the death of a husband or the loss of one or more of their children. As each of the chosen heroines comes to the fore in her turn, she is handed the baton by her 'sister', and Leonie Frieda recounts the role each woman played in the hundred-year drama that is THE DEADLY SISTERHOOD.
Women Of Power
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Author : Mark Strage
language : en
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Release Date : 1976
Women Of Power written by Mark Strage and has been published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with France categories.
Women In Power Caterina And Maria De Medici
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Author : Clarice Innocenti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Women In Power Caterina And Maria De Medici written by Clarice Innocenti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Tapestry, Baroque categories.
The Medici Women
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Medici Women written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Florence (Italy) categories.
Women Patronage And Salvation In Renaissance Florence
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Author : Stefanie Solum
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Women Patronage And Salvation In Renaissance Florence written by Stefanie Solum and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
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.