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Esseqvie del serenissimo don Francesco Medici, gran duca di Toscana II

Strozzi, Giovanni Battista, il Giovane, 1551-1634 · 1587 · In Fiorenza, Ne le case de' Sermartelli · 5 pictures

A 1587 Florentine funeral description by Giovanni Battista Strozzi the Younger, printed at the Sermartelli house in Florence for mourners of Grand Duke Francesco I of Tuscany. Its pictures are engraved title pages, a full funeral catafalque elevation with stepped base and columns, and a coat of arms with putti and crown, showing ornate Renaissance architecture a designer could draw on for classical framing, cartouches and monumental structure.

Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587 · Funeral rites and ceremonies

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