Marie de medici biography of barack
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THE LIFE
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MARIE Spread out MEDICIS, Subsequent QUEEN Commandeer HENRY IV OF FRANCE.
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Queen of France
CONSORT OF HENRI IV, Tell REGENT Endlessly THE Area UNDER Gladiator XIII
BY
JULIA PARDOE
AUTHOR OF
'LOUIS Cardinal AND Picture COURT Disbursement FRANCE Remove THE 17th CENTURY,'
'THE Stare at AND Ascendancy OF FRANCIS THE FIRST,' ETC.
IN Tierce VOLUMES
VOL. I
1890
TO
MR. AND Wife. CHARLES BECKET
(OF HEVER Challenge, KENT)
These Volumes
ARE VERY Dearly INSCRIBED
BY
THE AUTHOR
PREFACE TO Representation FIRST EDITION
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M24218: Portrait of Marie de Medici as Justice
Harvard Art Museums
Prints
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M24218
- People
- Thomas de Leu, French (Audenarde 1555 - 1612 Paris)
Marie de Medicis
After Isaïe Fournier, French (active c. 1590-1600) - Title
- Portrait of Marie de Medici as Justice
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: La Couronne de Justice
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1600-1609
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/191497
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.8 x 14.4 cm (7 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
- Signed: Thomas de Leu.fecit.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- i/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- R.-D. 456
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Jakob Rosenberg Fund
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- M24218
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Thursday Seminar: “The Paradoxical Queen in the Garden: Maria de’ Medici at Fontainebleau”
From the moment of his marriage to his new consort Maria de’ Medici in 1600, Henri IV began to sanction imagery that promoted her value to the French monarchy.Not only prints, medals and sculptures showed the royal couple as partners, but also expansive changes to the residences and gardens chronicled this new direction in the French portrayal of queens. Medici models and artists played an increasingly large role in crafting an honored place for the queen that lasted into her role as regent and queen mother after Henri’s death in 1610.
Different media and locations demanded carefully varied kinds of representation, however, that changed over time. The royal château at Fontainebleau, the site of rapid construction of decorated rooms and a gallery in the queen’s apartment, as well as a renovation of the queen’s garden that Primaticcio had created for Caterina de’ Medici in the mid-sixteenth century, chronicles these changes. Tommaso Francini, the fountain engineer sent from Florence at the beginning of the new Bourbon monarchy to re-craft Henri’s gardens after working on the Medici villa at Pratolino, made a new fountain of Diana for the queen’s garden at F