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Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence (Hardcover)
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Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence (Hardcover)
Series: Rulers & Elites, 16
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The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in
the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the
Medici court during the family's reign, first as Dukes of Florence
(1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737).
The book opens with an examination of global practices in
zoological collecting and cultural uses of animals. The Medici's
activities as collectors of exotic species, the menageries they
established and their deployment of animals in the ceremonial life
of the court and in their art are examined in relation to this
wider global perspective. The book seeks to nuance the myth
promoted by the Medici themselves that theirs was the most
successful princely serraglio in early modern Europe.
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