Medici women as cultural mediators, 1533-1743
Subtitle: le donne di casa Medici e il loro ruolo di mediatrici culturali fra le corti d'Europa
By: edited by = a cura di Christina Strunck
Contributors: Strunck, Christina; Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy); Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
Series: Biblioteca d'arte -- 35; Biblioteca d'arte (Milan, Italy) -- 35.
Publisher: Silvana
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cinisello Balsamo, Milano
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9788836622382
Subjects: History; Women art patrons; Congresses; Biography; Art patronage; Nobility; Queens
Other titles: Donne di casa Medici e il loro ruolo di mediatrici culturali fra le corti d'Europa
Notes: "Proceedings of the international conference Artful allies : Medici women as cultural mediators, held in Florence at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institute) in October 2008"--opp. t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English or Italian.
Table of contents: title: Medici women as "artful allies"  -- Christina Strunck; title: "La Florentina" or "La bonne Françoise" :; title: some sixteenth-century commentators on Catherine de'Medici and her patronage  -- Sheila ffolliott; title: Conspicuous absences, transnational relationships in Catherine de'Medici's portrait collection  -- Henri Zerner; title: Magnificentissimum spectaculum Caterina de'Medici  e le feste parigine del 1573  -- Luisa Capodieci; title: From Caterina de'Medici to Maria Magdalena of Austria :; title: the politics of danced spectacle  -- Iain Fenlon; title: Expressing a habsburg sensibility in the Medici court :; title: the Grand Duchess Giovanna d'Austria's patronage and public image in Florence  -- Lisa Kaborycha; title: Christine of Lorraine and cultural exchanges in the countryside :; title: international customs in local settings  -- Suzanna B. Butters; title: How Chrestienne became Cristina :; title: political and cultural encounters between Tuscany and Lorraine  -- Christina Strunck; title: Maria de'Medici :; title: la costruzione di una regina  -- Maria Fubini Leuzzi; title: Liberalità calcolate :; title: politiche del dono tra corte di Francia e corti italiane al tempo di Maria de'Medici  -- Jean-François Dubost; title: Maria Maddalena d'Austria e il culto delle reliquie alla corte dei Medici :; title: scambi di modelli dinastici ed ecclesiastici  -- Ilaria Hoppe; title: Maria Maddalena d'Austria's pilgrimage to Loreto :; title: visuality, liminality and exchange  -- Alice E. Sanger; title: Iconografie politiche nella stanza della Stufa a palazzo Pitti Maria Maddalena d'Austria e la circolazione di modelli internazionali  -- Elisa Acanfora; title: "Ritratti fatti per mano del Bronzino, pittore di-- singulare eccellenza et fame" :; title: Medici women and court portraits by Cristofano Allori as gifts  -- Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato; title: Anna Maria Luisa de'Medici e la corte di Düsseldorf -- Ulrike Ilg.