LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

Bloodlines: Portraits of Maria Salviati de’ Medici by Bronzino and Pontormo

Declarations of Dynasty: The State Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo

‘These tender and well-born plants’: Young Daughters and Wards of Cosimo and Eleonora

A ‘Medici’ Papacy and a Counter-Reformation in Portraiture: Allori’s Giulia d’Alessandro de’ Medici

The New Medicean Cosmos: Lucrezia de’ Medici, Duchess of Ferrara

Damnatio Memoriae: Isabella de’ Medici Orsini, ‘La stella di casa Medici’

Up Close and Personal: Patronage and the Miniature Eleonora (‘Dianora’) di Toledo de’ Medici

Epilogue

APPENDICES

TERMINOLOGY AND ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS

INDEX

About the Author

Gabrielle Langdon, a former museum educator, is adjunct professor for the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario. She has taught Renaissance art history in Europe, the United States, and Canada.

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