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 Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject: Some scholars |
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Ronsard was in many ways proved correct. The death of Catherine's beloved son Henry III in 1589, a few months after her own, brought the Valois dynasty to an end. Precious little of Catherine's grand building work has survived.
[edit] See also
* Catherine de' Medici's court festivals
* Catherine de' Medici's patronage of the arts
[edit] Notes and references
1. ^ a b c d Knecht, 220.
2. ^ Frieda, 79.
3. ^ "The Day of the Barricades" (12 May 1589), in which a mob took over the streets of Paris, "reduced the authority and prestige of the monarchy to its lowest ebb for a century and a half". Morris, 260.
4. ^ The architect Philibert de l'Orme wrote: "your good judgement (bon esprit) shows itself more and more and shines as you yourself take the trouble to project and sketch out (protraire et esquicher) the buildings which it pleases you to commission". Knecht, 228.
5. ^ Knecht, 228. The poet Ronsard accused her of preferring masons to poets.
6. ^ Babelon, The Louvre, 263.
7. ^ Frieda, 24.
8. ^ Frieda, 30–31.
9. ^ Hautecœur, 523.
10. ^ a b Thomson, 176.
11. ^ Knecht 176; Frieda, 199.
12. ^ Frieda, 79, 455; Sutherland, 6.
13. ^ Blunt, Art and Architecture in France, 80. These extensions, supervised by Pierre Lescot and featuring relief sculptures by Jean Goujon, were continued by the last four Valois kings.
14. ^ Norwich, 158.
15. ^ Thornton, 51.
16. ^ Norwich, 157.
17. ^ Hoogvliet, 111. Some scholars believe that the intertwined letter Cs may also refer to crescent moons, the emblem of Henry's lover Diane de Poitiers (the crescent moon was the symbol of the goddess Diana). However, Catherine continued to use this monogram after Henry's death.
18. ^ Knecht, 58.
19. ^ "Catherine's lifelong mourning was not only a manner to express grief: it was also the legitimisation of her political role." Hoogvliet, 106.
20. ^ a b c d Knecht, 223.
21. ^ Frieda, 266; Hoogvliet, 108. Louis Le Roy, in his Ad illustrissimam reginam D. Catherinam Medicem of 1560, was the first to call Catherine the "new Artemisia".
22. ^ Quoted by Knecht, 224. Catherine commissioned the artists Niccolò dell'Abbate and Antoine Caron to illustrate the poem. The drawings were subsequently turned into tapestries, none of which survive; but, gold price predictions
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