Categories
season five

Episode 76: The People’s Grand Duke

After his brother’s hands-off approach to ruling, Grand Duke Ferdinando I instead tends to the economic health of his state and his people.

A 1590 portrait of Grand Duke Ferdinando I by Scipione Pulzone. Source: Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
A portrait of Christine of Lorraine from 1588. Anonymous. Source: Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
The “Venus de’ Medici”. Source: Uffizi Gallery, https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/medici-venus.

Leave a comment