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Feste nelle nozze del serenissimo don Francesco Medici gran dvca di Toscana; et della sereniss. sua consorte la sig. Bianca Cappello

Gualterotti, Raffaello, 1543-1638, Baldi, Accursio, 16th cent, Marsili, Sebastiano, 16th cent · 1579 · In Firenze, Nella stamperia de' Giunti · 22 pictures

A 1579 Florentine festival book printed at the Giunti press in Florence by Raffaello Gualterotti, Accursio Baldi and Sebastiano Marsili, recording the wedding celebrations of Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici and Bianca Cappello for a courtly audience. Its engravings show chariots, mythological processions, sea creatures and armoured riders in dense, lively compositions, offering a designer baroque pageant staging, ornamental cartouche ideas and dramatic monster and chariot motifs, several plates printed sideways.

Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587 · Bianca, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1548-1587 · Royal weddings · Tournaments (Medieval)

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