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Francesco de' Medici
Alessandro Allori (Italian, 1535–1607)
c. 1560
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 97.9 × 76.4 cm (38 1/2 × 30 1/8 in.); Framed: 117.7 × 96.9 × 10.2 cm (46 3/8 × 38 1/8 × 4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Francesco de’ Medici was the oldest son of Florentine duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and Eleanora di Toledo, great patrons of the arts who instilled the same appreciation in their children. Francesco is shown here displaying a cameo of an unidentified female figure, highlighting his interest in collecting. One of his creations as a patron was the so-called Studiolo in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, a space dedicated to the appreciation of refined, intricate works of art and scientific curiosities. Francesco succeeded his father as Grand Duke of Tuscany only grudgingly, preferring a life of scholarship to statecraft.
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