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Isabella Romola de' Medici (31 August 1542 – 16 July 1576) was the daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Eleonora di Toledo. She received a humanist education alongside her brother, Francesco de' Medici, who succeeded their father as the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Nov 29, 2023 · That distinction likely belongs to a retouched likeness from a century earlier: the portrait of a tragic member of the powerful Medici family, Isabella de' Medici (daughter of Cosimo I de'...
Born in 1542; died in July 1576 by her husband's hand; daughter of Cosimo I de Medici (1519–1574), grand duke of Tuscany (r. 1569–1574), and Eleonora de Medici (1522–1562); married Paolo Giordano Orsini, prince of Bracciano or Brachiano, in 1558.
Jul 1, 2014 · While looking through other portraits of women in the Medici family, she spotted the garment in a Alessandro Allori work depicting Isabella de Medici (1542–76), Eleanor of Toledo’s daughter with Cosimo de’ Medici. The story of Isabella is a tragic one, making the Magdalene imagery quite appropriate.
Learn how curators and conservators discovered a portrait of Isabella de' Medici attributed to Alessandro Allori beneath the surface of a work repainted in the 19th century, or how to tell the museum’s genuine painting by Francesco Francia of the Virgin and Child apart from later imitations and copies.
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- Carnegie Museum of Art
Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin.
Isabella De’ Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess. Written by Caroline P. Murphy. Review by Ann Oughton. Charming, amusing, intelligent and immensely wealthy, the beautiful Isabella de’ Medici strutted her stuff centre stage as an indulged star of the most powerful house of Medici.
