Catherine De' Medici's Building Projects

By Jesse Russell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Catherine de' Medici's building projects included the Valois chapel at Saint-Denis, the Tuileries Palace, and the H tel de la Reine in Paris, and extensions to the ch teau of Chenonceau, near Blois. Born in 1519 in Florence to an Italian father and a French mother, Catherine de' Medici was a daughter of both the Italian and the French Renaissance. She grew up in Florence and Rome under the wing of the Medici popes, Leo X and Clement VII. In 1533, at the age of fourteen, she left Italy and married Henry, the second son of Francis I and Queen Claude of France. On doing so, she entered the greatest Renaissance court in northern Europe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5510523123
• ISBN13: 9785510523126
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.0"