Geography and iconography of a princely journey in the second half of the 17th century: the Iberian Grand tour of Cosimo III de’ Medici and its images
Abstract
The documentation on the trip to Spain and Portugal developed by Cosimo III of Medici from 1668 until 1669, in large part still unpublished, is a source of great interest to deepen in the Iberian Peninsula of that moment, especially because of the role as a visual reporter developed by the painter Pier Maria Baldi, who painted 120 watercolours for illustrating the Relazione ufficiale, manuscript preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Florence). In this article we propose the travel’s definitive itinerary, remarkable historic attestation about a Grand tour in the Iberian context.
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