Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Grand Duke of Tuscany · Politicians · Lived 1610 to 1670 · aged 59
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Something wrong?He ruled Tuscany for nearly half a century and kept a laboratory bench alongside his throne - but his long reign marks the hinge between Medici brilliance and irreversible decline.
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Justus Sustermans, Ferdinando II de' Medici, 1653-54 -FG_(14775844442).jpg?width=1200)
Orazion funerale per la morte del sereniss. Ferdinando II, granduca di Toscana - nell' esequie celebrate in Firenze dal serenissimo gran duca Cosimo III (1671) (14775844442)
Cappelle medicee, cripta, tomba della figlia senza nome di ferdinando II de' medici, nata e morta nel 1641
Cappelle medicee, cripta, tomba di cosimo figlio di ferdinando II, nato e morto nel 1639
Cappelle medicee, cripta, tomba di ferdinando II de' medici
Firenze, cappelle medicee, esterno, finestrone superiore, iscrizione ferdinando II de' medici, 5° granduca, 1649
Piazza de' Frescobaldi 1, palazzo della missione, facciata del 1640 ca., portale, lapide ferdinando II
Prato, via cairoli 7, portale con stemmi di prato e iscrizione a ferdinando II, 1628Awards
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Ferdinando II de' Medici became Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1621 at age ten, eldest son of Cosimo II and Maria Maddalena of Austria. Contemporaries knew him as a man drawn to culture and science: he worked directly in the Accademia del Cimento, Italy's first official scientific society, founded by his younger brother Leopoldo. He married his first cousin, Vittoria della Rovere, and they had two children who survived to adulthood - Cosimo III and Francesco Maria, who became a cardinal. His 49-year reign saw the beginning of Tuscany's long economic slide, a descent his son Cosimo III would accelerate after his death in 1670.
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