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history: she was buried in a common grave in the church of San Lorenzo, her

portraits were destroyed and her coats of arms replaced by those of Joanna of

Austria, in what was a genuine »damnatio memoriae«, behind which was also the

desire to please the emperor and Ferdinando’s wife Christina of Lorraine. However,

 some of her portraits remain in Florence, in the Uffizi galleries, the Palazzo

Pitti

(fig.

9) and other

collections.19

These are coeval but also

18th-century

copies

based on two different prototypes, or copies taken from them, which evidently

escaped Ferdinando’s destructive campaign: one or more portraits by Alessandro

Allori, the other is undoubtedly one by

Pulzone.20

Scipione Pulzone called Gaetano

Born in Gaeta, on the border between Lazio and Campania, around

1540-42,21

he is documented as being in Rome from

1562.22

In 1567 he received a sum as

reimbursement for additional expenses and is called »Scipione pittore«. In July

1567 he was enrolled in the Accademia di San Luca. According to the tradition

Fig. 4: Raffaello Gualterotti, Feste nelle
nozze del serenissimo Don Francesco Medici
 Gran-Duca di Toscana et della sereniss.
 sua consorte la sign. Bianca Capello,
Florence, 1579

Fig. 5: Alessandro Allori (attrib.), Bianca Cappello.
Florence, Galleria Palatina inv.no. 2240