Esequie della Regina Maria : celebrate in Firenze per ordine del Serenissimo Granduca di Toscana : nell'insigne collegiata di San Lorenzo il di 23. di settembre 1642

Berti, Simone, 1589-1659, Cecchi-Conti, Francesco, 17th cent, Parigi, Paolo, 17th cent · 1643 · In Firenze : Per Amador Massi, e Lorenzo Landi · 1 picture

A 1643 Florentine funeral description for Queen Maria de' Medici, written by Simone Berti and printed in Florence by Amador Massi and Lorenzo Landi for Grand Duke Ferdinando II of Tuscany. The engraved title page shows a crowned cartouche of arms flanked by two plumed helmeted figures on pedestals, with urns and cypress trees at the sides, a formal, symmetrical layout a designer could adapt for ceremonial or memorial graphics.

Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642 · Ferdinando II, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1610-1670 · Funeral rites and ceremonies

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