Although we need to look at the Middle Ages and
chivalric traditions to explain courtship and nuptial traditions, it is during the Renaissance period that they achieve the splendor that we still see today.
Here are some examples.
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| A wedding cassone, a medallion and a terracotta ewer with a portrait of the bride and groom |
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| Wedding of Francesco Medici and Bianca Cappello and Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid |
