Gian Gastone de' Medici
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Gian Gastone de' Medici was the seventh and last Medicean grand duke of Tuscany.
Portrait by Franz Ferdinand Richter
Portrait of a 20-year old Gian Gastone (after Niccolò Cassana, c. 1690)
Gian Gastone by Adriaen van der Werff, 1710
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Electress Palatine of the Rhine, Gian Gastone's sister, by Jan Frans van Douven
Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg was the legal Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg in the eyes of the Holy Roman Emperor, the overlord of Saxe-Lauenburg, from 1689 until 1728; however, because her distant
Gian Gastone de' Medici
…Cosimo III de' Medici and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans. His sister, Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa, arranged his marriage to the wealthy and widowed Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1697. The couple despised each other and had no children. As Grand Prince Ferdinando, Gian Gastone's elder brother, predeceased Cosimo III, Gian…
Anna Marie Franziska, official portrait as Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Anna Maria Franziska (R) with her sister Sibylle (L), c. 1690 by an anonymous artist
Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg, first husband of Anna Maria. A canvas by Pieter van der Werff, 1690