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    The French queen Catherine de' Medici was patron for building projects including the Valois chapel at the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the Tuileries Palace...
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    Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, pronounced [kateˈriːna de ˈmɛːditʃi]; French: Catherine de Médicis, pronounced [katʁin də medisis];...
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    distantly related to Catherine de' Medici's court productions. An inventory drawn up at the Hôtel de la Reine after Catherine de' Medici's death shows that...
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    Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; Italian: Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife...
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    his grandfather's building projects and constantly stressed by mismanagement, wars, and political expenses, the assets of the Medici Bank were reduced...
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    After securing Alessandro de' Medici's dukedom, Pope Clement VII married off his first cousin, twice removed, Catherine de' Medici, to the son of Emperor...
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    Lorenzino de' Medici's assassination was ordered by the Emperor Charles V Habsburg". PRLog. Hibbert, Christopher (1999). The House of Medici, Its Rise...
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    the Chateau. Roofs of the towers of the Château de Bonnemare. Catherine de' Medici's building projects Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption...
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    He almost completely renewed the interior and removed several of Catherine de' Medici's additions, including the rooms between the library and the chapel...
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  • painter; grandson of Jacques II Catherine de' Medici's building projects Baldus, Eduoard (n. d. [c. 1880]). Oeuvre de Jacques Androuet dit du Cerceau...
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    arches (1576–1577). For Catherine de Médicis he built the Hôtel de Soissons, (1572–84; demolished in 1748), of which only the Medici's column remains. His...
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    Giulio de' Medici's life began under tragic circumstances. On 26 April 1478—exactly one month before his birth—his father, Giuliano de Medici (brother...
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    marble sculptures of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici in coronation robes Catherine de' Medici's building projects French art Connat & Colombier 1951;...
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    transferred to Christina after the death of Queen Catherine de' Medici of France and thus assumed by future Medici rulers. Ferdinando's foreign policy attempted...
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  • confidant of the Queen Regent of France, Catherine de Medici. She served as dame d'atour to Queen Catherine (1544-1552), Governess to the Children of...
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    Opts for Security represents Marie de' Medici's need for security through a depiction of the event when Marie de' Medici was forced to sign a truce in Angers...
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  • Carracks black sword - Catherine de' Medici's building projects - Catherine de' Medici's court festivals - Catherine de' Medici's patronage of the arts...
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    the castle of Usson, in Auvergne. D'Aubiac was executed, despite Catherine de' Medici's wish, in front of Margaret. Margaret assumed she was going to die...
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    the Elder remains the 1887 monograph of Henry de Geymüller [de]. Catherine de' Medici's building projects Androuet du Cerceau for the family Notes Baldus...
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    Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Queen Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre started a few days after...
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    attraction. On view for visitors are the supposed poison cabinets of Catherine de' Medici. Most likely this room, the "Chamber of Secrets", had a much more...
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    vestiges remain. Henry II gave it to Catherine de' Medici in 1556, and it was her earliest building project. The building consisted of a central pavilion housing...
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    entire garden. Le Nôtre was the grandson of Pierre Le Nôtre, one of Catherine de' Medici's gardeners, and his father Jean had also been a gardener at the Tuileries...
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    1559 initiated a prolonged struggle for power between his widow Catherine de' Medici and powerful nobles. These included a fervently Catholic faction...
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    Michelangelo (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Lorenzo de' Medici's death on 8 April 1492 brought a reversal of Michelangelo's circumstances. Michelangelo left the security of the Medici court and...
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    (grand house) on the site for Catherine de' Medici (1519–89). A tower with an encaged observation platform, now called the Medici column, was built beside...
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    (Cardinal d'Este and Archbishop of Lyon) bought a building on the Chaillot Hill. In 1583, Queen Catherine de Médicis bought this mansion or hermitage and the part...
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    terrace, was ordered in 1556 by Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici and was built by Philibert de l'Orme. Called in its day la maison du théâtre (the...
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    ending the Lorraine government. Catherine de' Medici, the young king's mother, moved to the centre of the political stage as de facto regent for her second...
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    practical approaches, then a second phase covering the period of Lorenzo de' Medici's reign, from 1450 to 1492, was characterised by mainly intellectual contributions...
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