“To see at Least in an Image the Semblance of a Friend ...” Representing the Family of Pacowie Between Baroque Tuscany and Lithuania
“To see at Least in an Image the Semblance of a Friend ...” Representing the Family of Pacowie Between Baroque Tuscany and Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: This essay maps a Tuscan-Lithuanian gift exchange between Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici and Pacowie family members in the late 17th century, to reframe the Pacowie in relation to broader European dynamics by means of a transregional microhistory retracing the entanglements of objects, images, motifs and materials as intercultural thresholds mediating socio-cultural relations, and recalibrate the relationship between the Pacowie and their supposedly “peripheral” sphere with Tuscany and the Medici, conventionally considered “central” to the history of baroque Europe.

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