Ferdinando II de' Medici
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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 as a man of culture
Justus Sustermans Portrait of Ferdinando II de' Medici Dressed in Oriental Costume WGA21971
Equestrian portrait of Ferdinando de' Medici by Justus Sustermans
The family of Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1622–1623), from left to right: Mattias, Gian Carlo, Francesco and the Grand Duke Ferdinand with the cross of Saint Stephen; the Duchess-mother Maria Magdalena of Austria, Marie-Christine, Marguerite, Anne and the young Leopold, Musée Ingres Bourdelle.
Cosimo III, second son of Ferdinando II, engraving by Adriaen Haelwegh
Francesco Maria de' Medici
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Francesco Maria de' Medici was a member of the House of Medici. He was successively a Governor of Siena, and later the heir of the duchy of Montefeltro by right of his mother. He was also a cardinal o
Ferdinando II de' Medici
…de' Medici. He married Vittoria della Rovere, a first cousin, with whom he had two children who reached adulthood: the aforementioned Cosimo III, and Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, a cardinal. Ferdinando was only 10 years of age when his father Cosimo II died. Because he had not yet reached maturity, his mother Maria Maddalena…
Portrait by Justus Sustermans, 1678
Francesco Maria de' Medici as an infant
1686 bust of cardinal Francesco Maria by Giovanni Battista Foggini