What did Lorenzo Medici suffer from? [50], In 1736, during the War of the Polish Succession, Don Carlos was banished from Tuscany as part of a territorial swap, and Francis III of Lorraine was made heir in his stead. Publication date 1932 Topics Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723, Gian Gastone, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1671-1737, Medici, House of, Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723, Gian Gastone, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1671-1737, Medici, House of Publisher London, Faber and Faber Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Digitizing … [58][59] She occupied herself financing and overseeing the construction of the Cappella dei Principi—started in 1604 by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany—to the tune of 1,000 crowns per week, and she donated much of her fortune to charity: £4,000 per annum. This is equivalent to £83.9 million in present day terms. 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The Medici bore the title of grand dukes of Tuscany (Italian: Granduca di Toscana) back from 1569. He despised the Electress for engineering his unhappy marriage with Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, while she detested his liberal policies: he repealed all of his father's anti-Semitic statutes and revelled in upsetting her. See more ideas about renaissance portraits, italian renaissance, renaissance. [37] Dowager Grand Princess Violante Beatrice, her brother Ferdinando's widow, and Anna Maria Luisa did not enjoy an amiable relationship. Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, only daughter of Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and wife of Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine, died on February 18th, 1743, at the age of 75. In 1743, the last member of the family that had ruled Florence for almost 300 years died a slow and painful death. Cynthia Miller Lawrence, an American art-historian, argues that Anna Maria Luisa thus provisioned for Tuscany's future economy through tourism. Following the death of her brother Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gian Gastone, in 1730 and the dissolution of the Royal House of Medici, Anna Maria Luisa was princess in name only. This is equivalent to £335 million in present day terms. Cosimo granted her a pension of 80,000 livres in compensation. Among them is Prince Lorenzo de’ Medici, who oddly enough established a digital Medici bank last year. The last Medici ruler died without a male heir in 1737, ending the family dynasty after almost three centuries. Key Players of the Medici Family (from left top corner to bottom right): Giovanni di Bicci (1360-1429) Giovanni is one of five sons of a poor widow. Violante Beatrice tried to withdraw the Grand Duke from their sphere of influence by organising banquets. The last act closes on Gian Gastone, their cynical younger son, bedridden in the Pitti Palace, a florid figure of despair, with the Powers of Europe ever on the alert for the sound of his death-rattle. [49] These distractions ceased upon Violante Beatrice's death in 1731. A scientific examination found no traces of syphilis, which she had long been thought to have died from. But his plan was met with fierce opposition from the European powers. [45][46] In the period 1722–1725, the Electress embellished the villa further by commissioning twelve statues of various religious figures. A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medici's large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medicean villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's death in 1737, and her Palatine treasures to the Tuscan state, on the condition that no part of it could be removed from "the Capital of the grand ducal S… Much has been w. In his remarkable account of the last Medici, famous aesthete and historian Harold Acton (1904-1994) takes up the causes which led to the disappearance of a house which has left indelible traces on the art, literature and commerce of the world; and his book was one of the first attempts to deal with this despotic dynasty in a scholarly and impartial spirit. [22], Anna Maria Luisa arranged a marriage for her younger brother at the instigation of their father: On 2 July 1697 Gian Gastone de' Medici married Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, heiress of the eponymous duchy, in Düsseldorf. Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, who bore no children and died in 1743, was the last lineal descendant of the main branch of the House of Medici. Fortunately for us, Anna Maria Luisa was a woman ahead of her time. 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