Medicea hospes, sive Descriptio pvblicæ gratvlationis : qua Serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit Senatvs popvlvsqve Amstelodamensis
Medicea hospes is a 1638 Latin account by Caspar van Baerle, printed in Amsterdam by the Blaeu brothers, describing the civic welcome given to Marie de Médicis by the city's senate and people. The plates show the ceremonial triumphal arches, crowds and processions of that entry, drawn in fine engraved line. A designer could draw from their architectural framing, dense crowd groupings and classical allegorical figures for period-accurate baroque pageantry.
