The Marriage Portrait is Maggie O' Farrell's fictional interpretation of Lucrezia de Cosimo de Medici, who fights to survive her forced marriage with her abhorrent husband, Duke Alfonso II.

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine ...

In her latest novel, The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell takes readers ... abound in her reimagining of the life of Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of the Grand Duke of Florence, Cosimo ...

“The Marriage Portrait,” which follows the short life and suspicious death of Lucrezia de’ Medici. This interview was edited for length and clarity. Who was Lucrezia de’ Medici and what ...

Bronzino’s portrait of Cosimo I de Medici Composite XRF scan of the Cosimo portrait, showing mercury (red) and iron (green). It reveals the outline of the underpainting. At the gallery I meet wi ...

That distinction likely belongs to a retouched likeness from a century earlier: the portrait of a tragic member of the powerful Medici family, Isabella de' Medici (daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici ...

57 x 44 cm. (22.4 x 17.3 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

77 x 61 cm. (30.3 x 24 in.) ...

By comparison, we know this to be a profile portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence — Bia’s father. In fact, to simplify an enormously tangled family history, Cosimo fathered ...