For Cosimo I de’ Medici’s wife, motherhood was her superpower. Hear Costume designer Alessandro Lai, head of the School of Historical Dress Jenny Tiramani, contemporary portraitist Bisa Butler, and Renaissance scholars Linda Wolk-Simon and Victoria Kirkham unravel the ways Eleanora di Toledo’s portrait reveals her status as one of the Medici’s key influencers.

Produced for the exhibition The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570.