Exotic animals in the art and culture of the Medici court in Florence / by Angelica Groom.
Groom, Angelica, author.
2019
DG737.42 .G76 2019
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Title
Exotic animals in the art and culture of the Medici court in Florence / by Angelica Groom.
Author
Groom, Angelica, author.
ISBN
9789004368989
9789004371132 (electronic book)
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Call Number
DG737.42 .G76 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
945/.51107
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on print version record.
Series
Rulers & elites ; v. 16.
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Exotic animals in the art and culture of the Medici court in Florence.
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Introduction and global perspective of animal collecting and menageries
Zoological collecting at the Medici court: practices of exchange
And processes of procurement
Menageries and aviaries in Medicean Florence
The sport of the chase: "exotic hunts" at the Medici court
Spectacles of slaughter and courtly pageants: exotic beasts
As symbols of power and colonial ambitions
Animal imagery in the service of political imaging
Medici patronage and early modern naturalism: tensions
Between scientific and decorative naturalism
The Ambrogiana series of animal paintings.

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