Maria de' Medici (1540–1557)
Maria de' Medici (April 3, 1540 – November 19, 1557) was the eldest child of
Life
She was engaged to
According to one unreliable legend, recounted in Edgcumbe Staley's The Tragedies of the Medici, Maria was lovely and kept closely guarded from men, but managed to meet a young lover, Malatesta de' Malatesti, in secret. According to the story, she was stabbed in the heart by her father after he caught the young lovers together. Cosimo then supposedly put out the story that she had died of a spotted fever and threw her young lover in prison.[3]
Other more accurate accounts indicate that Maria's cause of death was probably
Portraits
Maike Vogt-Lüerssen argued in an article in Medicea – Rivista interdisciplinare di studi medicei that portraits of Maria have been misidentified by art historians during the past 500 years. She argued that a portrait by
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A portrait usually identified as Maria de' Medici, daughter ofCosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who died at the age of seventeen. She was painted by Bronzino when she was eleven. One critic proposed that the portrait is of Maria's younger half-sister Virginia de' Medici.
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This portrait by Bronzino was identified as Maria de' Medici, painted in January 1551 when she was ten years old, until the 1950s.
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A portrait of a young woman by Alessandro Allori that is sometimes identified as either Maria de’ Medici or her cousin, Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo.
Ancestry
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Notes
- ^ a b c "The Medici Granducal Archive and the Medici Archive Project" (PDF). p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2006.
- ^ Murphy (2008), pp. 34, 41
- ^ Staley, Edgcumbe The Tragedies of the Medici Archived 2007-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Murphy (2008), p. 63
- ^ Vogt-Lüerssen, Maike: The True Faces of the Daughters and Sons of Cosimo I de' Medici
- ^ ISBN 88-85957-36-6.
- ^ a b c d Ady, Cecilia Mary (1907). A History of Milan Under the Sforza. Methuen & Company. pp. 109, 334. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ ISBN 9781351885829. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ JSTOR 751086.
- ^ a b Ehrenberg, Richard (1896). Die Geldmächte des 16. Jahrhunderts [The money powers of the 16th century] (in German). G. Fischer. p. 308. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ a b Staley, Edgcumbe. "The First Tyrannicide". The Tragedies of the Medici.
References
- Murphy, Caroline P. (2008). Murder of a Medici Princess. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-531439-5
- Staley, Edgcumbe The Tragedies of the Medici
- Schultes, Lothar (2017): "Der Tod und das Mädchen – Bia oder Maria de' Medici?" In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für vergleichende Kunstforschung in Wien, 69, Nr. 1/2, February 2017, p. 1– 6.