Category Archives: Medici

Vittoria della Rovere 1622-1694

Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
She gave her husband four children, two of which would survive infancy the future Cosimo III and Francesco Maria de’ Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro. She was the Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro in her own right and these went to her youngest son when she died. She was later the guardian of her three grandchildren. Her marriage bought a lot of art treasures to the House of Medici which are today at the Palazzo Pitti Uffizi Gallery in Florence. She did not get on with her daughter in law Marguerite Louise d’Orléans.

Artist/Engraver Pieter de Jode
Size 29 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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Anna de’ Medici, Archduchess of Austria 1616-1676

Was a daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife Maria Maddalena of Austria. A patron of the arts, she married Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria in 1646. They were the parents of Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Holy Roman Empress.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2908

Simone de Gieri Gondi 1351

The Florentine banking family of the Gondi were prominent financial partners of the Medici.  Simone de Gieri Gondi held extensive lands around Valcava, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, where the church of S. Cresci, and a chapel which belonged to the Gondi (S. Margherita, formerly S. Martino) bore the Gondi arms. Simone de Gieri had seven children, one of whom was Silvestro Gondi whose son Simone de Silvestro Gondi was the first of the Gondi to be the Grand Prior of the Republic of Florence.
Date:1351
Size 15.5 x 24.5 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1242

Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany 1547-1578

Joanna of Austria was born an Archduchess of Austria as the youngest daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. By marriage, she was the Grand Princess of Tuscany and later the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. One of her daughters was Marie de Medici, second wife of King Henry IV of France.
Size 17 x 27.5 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1034

Don Giovanni de’ Medici 1567-1621

Italian military commander, diplomat and architect. Medici was born the illegitimate son of Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and of Eleonora of Albizzi. Medici was later legitimated by his father
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Carlo III, duca di Lorena 1543-1608

Duke of Lorraine, known as “the Great”. He took part in the civil wars of France and in 1588 joined the Catholic League. In 1559 he married Claudia, daughter of the French king Henry II of Valois (1519-1559). His daughter Cristina (1565-1636) married Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549-1609), Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:329

Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1642-1723

The penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Cosimo’s 53-year-long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked by a series of ultra-reactionary laws which regulated prostitution and banned May celebrations.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1254