Medici women : portraits of power, love and betrayal from the court of Duke Cosimo I

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