Feste nelle nozze del serenissimo don Francesco Medici gran dvca di Toscana; et della sereniss. sua consorte la sig. Bianca Cappello
A 1579 Florentine festival book printed at the Giunti press in Florence by Raffaello Gualterotti, Accursio Baldi and Sebastiano Marsili, recording the wedding celebrations of Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici and Bianca Cappello for a courtly audience. Its engravings show chariots, mythological processions, sea creatures and armoured riders in dense, lively compositions, offering a designer baroque pageant staging, ornamental cartouche ideas and dramatic monster and chariot motifs, several plates printed sideways.





















