| Abstrakt: |
Documents attesting the existence of portraits of Anna de' Medici (1569-1584), daughter of Grand Duke Francesco I, have been known and in part published since the 19th century, but none of these paintings is currently known. This study presents the observations and archival documents necessary to recognize a first portrait of this Medici princess, in a painting preserved in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, commissioned to Alessandro Allori in 1578. It is also proposed to recognize in an illuminated medallion from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, very close to the Vienna painting, a head portrait of the same princess, commissioned after her death by her sister Eleonora, Duchess of Mantua. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
