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Circa 1600: Spanish Values and Tuscan Painting*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Edward L. Goldberg
Edward L. Goldberg*
Affiliation:
The Medici Archive Project, Florence
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Abstract

In the years 1599-1604, Grand Duke Ferdinando I de'Medici ordered state gifts of contemporary Florentine paintings for three influential Spanish noblewomen (Catalina de la Cerda, Marquesa de Denia; Magdalena de Guzmán, Marquesa del Valle; and María de Toledo y Colonna, Duquesa de Alba). The problem of producing images suitable for Spanish usage is discussed in explicit detail, in a series of documents recently discovered in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze.

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Studies
Information
Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1998 , pp. 912 - 933
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1998

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Footnotes

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These documents were discovered in the course of work on: Documentary Sources for the Arts and Humanities in the Medici Granducal Archive (1537-1743), an initiative of The Medici Archive Project. Special thanks are due to the scholars of Spanish and Tuscan art and history who read and commented on this article in various stages of its preparation; these include Jonathan Brown, Marcus Burke, Malcolm Campbell, Robert Carlucci, Marco Chiarini, Jose Luís Colomer, Elizabeth Cropper, Charles Dempsey, John Elliott, Margarita M. Estella, Enriqueta Harris, Mary Jane Harris, Willian Jordan, Rosemarie Mulcahy, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, and Sarah Schroth, as well as two anonymous readers who offered timely reminders of the historical complexity of the questions raised by these documents.

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