UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active late 16th century in Florence)

Cosimo I de' Medici

late 16th century
Oil on canvas, 218 x 144 cm
Museo di Palazzo Reale, Pisa

This painting is one of the many portraits, in this case posthumous, of Cosimo I de' Medici represented as Grand Duke, crowned and with the sceptre in his left hand. After his death in 1574, the Emperor Maximilian signed the license which conceded the title of Grand Duke to the Medici dynasty.