Esseqvie della Sacra Cattolica, e Real Maesta di Margherita d'Avstria regina di Spagna, : celebrate dal serenissimo don Cosimo II. gran duca di Toscana IIII

Altoviti, Giovanni, Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, Parigi, Giulio, 1571-1635, Schiaminossi, Raffaello, ca. 1570-ca. 1620, Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630 · 1612 · In Firenze : Nella stamperia di Bartolommeo Sermartelli e fratelli · 33 pictures

This 1612 Florentine funeral account, printed in Florence by the Sermartelli press, records the obsequies of Queen Margaret of Austria as celebrated by Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany, with plates attributed to Jacques Callot and Giulio Parigi. The engravings show courtly figures in ceremonial groups: a seated queen receiving bows, mourners in ruffs and cloaks, and attendants in rows before draped interiors, offering a designer dense, formal crowd compositions and period dress detail.

Margarita, de Austria, Queen, consort of Philip III, King of Spain, 1584-1611 · Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1590-1621 · Funeral rites and ceremonies · Funeral decorations · Catafalques

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