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Cosimo I de' Medici: Art and Dynasty
A free display showing how Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany, used art to build his authority and secure his dynasty, from a monumental wine cooler bearing his emblem to a ceremonial sword linking him to Hercules.
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Two satyrs strain to hold up the bowl of a maiolica wine cooler more than 70cm long, made in Flaminio Fontana's Urbino workshop in 1574, the year Cosimo I de' Medici died. Painted on it is his emblem: a turtle carrying a sail, his visual pun on the motto festina lente, "make haste slowly".
The cooler is the centrepiece of a small display in the Housekeeper's Room: five objects from the museum's own paintings, maiolica and armoury, each showing how Cosimo, the Duke of Florence who made himself first Grand Duke of Tuscany, used objects to look legitimate. The curator, Julia van Zandvoort, wants you to "read" them "as instruments of power, not just things of beauty".
You also meet his wife, Eleonora di Toledo, in a portrait from Bronzino's studio that has just been cleaned of a heavily yellowed varnish. Entry is free.
編輯推介
一座刻有他徽章的巨型酒冷卻器，還有一把象徵他與海格力斯淵源的禮儀佩劍：托斯卡納首任大公正是藉着這些物件建立權威。免費入場。
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The turtle-and-sail wine cooler
Look for Cosimo's sailing turtle on the bowl, and the two satyrs underneath who look like they are struggling with its weight.
Cosimo's falchion
A short sword from around 1550, engraved with his heraldry, with a lion's-head pommel that casts him as Hercules.
Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo
Newly conserved: with the yellow varnish gone, its colours sit close to Bronzino's portrait of Eleonora and her son in the Uffizi.
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- Cosimo I de' Medici: Art and DynastyCourtesy of Wallace Collection
- RootsCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- Sanlé Sory：彩色歲月（Sanlé Sory: Colour Years）© Sanlé Sory, 2026. Courtesy of Tezeta.
- Snap Happy! 孩子如何成為攝影師（Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers）Courtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- Wallace CollectionSimon Burchell / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Photographers' GalleryThe wub / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Royal Academy of ArtsYair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wellcome CollectionOsama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0