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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0098-2474
- eISSN
- 2352-6963
- DOI
- 10.1163/23526963-90000392
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The Clairning Crown: Politics, Dynasty, and Gender in State Portraits of Medici Wornen Heather L Sale Holian commanding, elegant wo man gazes confidently from the canvas. Her rigid, life-size form displays the latest court fashion, executed in the finest fabrics and embellished by an ensemble of stunning jewelry. She stands at a slight angle to the picture plane with one hand relaxed by her side and the other resting on a nearby table covered in a cloth. Sitting ne ar her outstretched hand and providing the powerful political and dynastie context for her image is the distinctive gem-encrusted grand ducal crown ofher Medici husband, the Grand Duke ofTuscany. Such a description applies to any one of no less than thirty portraits of Medici Duchesses and Grand Duchesses produced over a concentrated fifty-year period encompassing the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.! Despite its prevalence and clear importance, the grand ducal portrait type has never been studied as a convention, nor have its standard iconography and meaning been thoroughly investigated. 2 Medici portrait scholar, Karla Langedijk, briefly no ted in her seminal work on the subject that an "established 'pattern'" did appear in the family's state portraiture of the
Journal
Explorations in Renaissance Culture – Brill
Published: Dec 2, 2010