Maria de' Medici (1540–1557)
Maria de' Medici was the eldest child of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. She was a member of the famous Medici family.
Possibly Maria de’ Medici with her younger brother Antonio in a posthumous portrait by Agnolo Bronzino.
A portrait usually identified as Maria de' Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who died at the age of seventeen. She was painted by Bronzino when she was eleven. One critic proposed that the portrait is of Maria's younger half-sister Virginia de' Medici.
This portrait by Bronzino was identified as Maria de' Medici, painted in January 1551 when she was ten years old, until the 1950s.
A portrait of a young woman by Alessandro Allori that is sometimes identified as either Maria de’ Medici or her cousin, Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo.
Cosimo I de' Medici was the second duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first grand duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death.
Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, c. 1545
Cosimo I de' Medici at about 19 years of age (by Pontormo, c. 1538)
Cosimo I's coronation as Grand Duke of Tuscany, which happened in 1570, Rome.
Official portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Grand Duke of Tuscany by Giovanni Battista Naldini
