Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence by Groom

Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004368989)

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Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence by Groom

Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence

$160.00
Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence by Groom

Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Angelica Groom
ISBN-10: 9004368981
ISBN-13: 9789004368989
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2018
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.80d
By Angelica Groom
By Angelica Groom
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Angelica Groom, Ph.D. (2013, University of Sussex), is senior lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She has contributed chapters to edited volumes on courtly collecting and on the relationship between zoological illustrations and sixteenth-century natural history.

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