The Beautiful & the Damned:Portraits of the First Dukes & Duchesses of Florence
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The Beautiful and the Damned: Portraits of the First Dukes and Duchesses of Florence
Dr. Marcello Simonetta
This lecture will focus on the portraits of the first dukes and duchesses of Florence, namely Alessandro and Cosimo I de' Medici, and their wives Marguerite of Austria and Eleonora de Toledo. Their tragic and splendid stories will be told through visual and written documents.
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