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Ferdinando II de' Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest son of Cosimo II de' Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria. Remembered by his contemporaries…
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1670)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life. He began his apprenticesh…
Caravaggio, Italian painter (born 1571)
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the inte…
The masque Tethys' Festival was performed at the Palace of Whitehall to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick as