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Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. |
| | She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace and eight sons to ensure male succession and three daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. |
| | She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo della Signoria was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. |
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