Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo col figlio (Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son) c.1545–1550 Oil on panel, 121.6 x 100 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Portraiture was an important political tool for the ducal Medici family. Often sent abroad…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Sisifo (Sisyphus) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 237 x 216 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The literary source for the Furies is Ovid‘s Metamorphoses (IV, 447-464) and Virgil‘s Aeneid (VI, 457-8), which recounts the eternal sufferings in Hades of Tityus,…
(1492–1549) Marguerite de Navarre, née Marguerite d’Angoulême Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême Princess of France Queen of Navarre Duchess of Alençon and Berry See also: • Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise (France) Born April 11 1492 Angoulême (France) Died December 21 1549 Odos (France)…
Created: 1549 Address: Piazza Pitti, 1, 50125 Firenze, Italia Website: https://www.uffizi.it/en/boboli-garden Works of Art: • Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540): Palazzina e Bastione del Cavaliere (1527-30) Boboli Gardens in Art: Corot, Camille (1796-1875) Florence. Vue prise des jardins Boboli c.1835–1840 Musée du Louvre, Paris …
Rulers: • Carlos I, King of Spain (1516-1556) • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1558) • Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-1569) • Edward VI, King of England and Ireland (1547-1553) • Henri II, King of France (1547-1559) • John Frederick I, Duke of Saxony (1547-1554) •…