Book ID: CBB247846044

Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence (2018)

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Groom, Angelica (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 360
Language: English

"The book examines the role 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 seraglio in early modern Europe"--

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Review Adriana Turpin (2020) Review of "Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 665-666). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lucia Papini
Petitjean, Beth Ann
Larsson, Eleanor
Schmiedel, Irina
Wolfram Koeppe
Mark Hengerer
Concepts
Animals
Courts and courtiers
Zoology
Science and culture
Collectors and collecting
Natural history
Time Periods
Early modern
16th century
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
Europe
Italy
Tuscany (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
London (England)
Middle and Near East
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Zoological Society of London
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