Discover art collector, patron, noble Cosimo I de' Medici

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Cosimo I de' Medici

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: Medici, Cosimo I de' (Groothertog)
Medici, Cosimo I dei
De' Medici, Cosimo I
Cosimo I de' Medici

Qualifications: art collector, patron, noble
Cosimo was the first Grand Duke of Tuscany between 1537 and 1574. He was an important promotor of the arts, patron of, among other artists, Giorgio Vasari, Jan van der Straat, Pontormo, Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini, Giambologna.

Nationality/school: Italian

Born: Florence 1519-06-11/1519-06-12
11 or 12 June

Deceased: Florence 1574-04-21
Castello near Florence

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: husband of Eleonora van Toledo (1519-1562), daughter of the Spanish Viceroy of Naples; father of Francesco I

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 21, p. 19-21
Baroni 2011 , passim

H.T. van Veen, Cosimo de' Medici, vorst en republikein: een studie naar het heersersimago van de eerste groothertog van Toscane (1537-1574), Amsterdam 1998
E. Grasman, recensie van van Veen 1998, Simiolus 27 (1999), p. 176-178
J. Becker, 'Aan een gouden keten: eerbewijzen voor kunstenaars', De zeventiende eeuw 18 (2002), p. 51-64
A.M. Gáldy, Cosimo I de' Medici as Collector. Antiquities and Archaeology in Sixteenth-century Florence, Cambridge 2009
G.J. van der Sman and B. Wierda, 'Wisselend succes: de loopbanen van Nederlandse en Vlaamse kunstenaars in Florence, 1450 - 1600', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 63 (2013), p. 170-239

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Project: Gerson Digital : Italy

External links: this collector in Treccani

Permalink: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/420370

Creation date: 2009-09-15; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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