Medici Women as Cultural Mediators (1533-1743)

 Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato “ ‘Ritratti fatti per mano del Bronzino, pittore di singulare eccellenza et fama’: Medici women and court portraits by Cristofano Allori as gifts

Lisa Kaborycha “Expressing a Habsburg Sensibility in the Medici Court: The Grand Duchess Giovanna d'Austria’s Patronage and Public Image in Florence”

From back cover: "This book explores the ways in which Medici women contributed to the cultural exchange among the courts of Europe, including not only exchange in the visual arts, music and literature, but also economic, political and religious exchange. The volume, which gathers the papers of an international conference held in Florence at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institute), focuses on the French queens Caterina and Maria de' Medici, on the Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici and on the Florentine grand duchesses Joan of Austria, Christine of Lorraine and Maria Magdalena of Austria."