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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Cosimo I de' Medici"”.
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Vincenzo Danti and the Medici court : constructing professional identity in late Renaissance Florence
… relocated to Florence in 1557 to work for the Medici court. While there, Danti completed visual and textual works oriented to the interests of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) and his son, Prince Francesco (1541-1587). Danti also participated in the literary and arts academies that were …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
… in the introduction to the thesis, I qualify independent portraits in all media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, historical or religious figure, like a god or a biblical character. These portraits, known from various studies as allegorical, historié, composite, …
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Vasari, the Medici, and the Grotesques of the Palazzo Vecchio
In 1540, Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his wife Eleonora di Toledo moved from the Medici palace on the Via Larga into the Palazzo Vecchio, the former seat of the Florentine republican government. As part of the ducal couple’s efforts to fashion their public identity, they embarked on an extensive …
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Waters and Welfare: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, 1549–1609
Over the central decades of the sixteenth century, the Tuscan ducal state formed in the midst of a flood crisis. A cooling climate, excessive rainfall, and deforestation, among other meteorological and anthropogenic changes now associated with the Little Ice Age, caused rivers and streams to more …
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Masculinity, Arms and Armour, and the Culture of Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Florence
… Florence, roughly spanning the reigns of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his two sons Francesco I and Ferdinando I, 1537-1609. My study primarily draws on records from the Otto di Guardia e Balia, the magistracy responsible for handling judicial and criminal affairs in Medicean Florence. I also …
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News from Venice: a digital analysis of Cosimo Bartoli’s correspondence and newsletters (1562–1572)
The aim of this study is to analyse Cosimo Bartoli’s contribution to Venice’s news production and circulation in the second half of the sixteenth century. From 1562 to 1572, Bartoli served as the Medici’s official agent in Venice. Like other resident diplomats, his primary responsibility was to …