@article{1375862,
      author = {Groom, Angelica,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1375862},
      title = {Exotic animals in the art and culture of the Medici court  in Florence /},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {1375862},
      pages = {1 online resource (360 pages) :},
}