# Marriage of Cosimo III and Margherita Luisa d'Orléans [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLA, Stefano della]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Etching ## Commentary The splendid festivities held on the occasion of the wedding of Prince Cosimo de' Medici with Margherita Luisa d'Orléans on June 20, 1661, at the Palazzo Pitti are preserved in a series of etchings by Stefano della Bella. This sheet shows the dazzling aggrandizing display of the ceremonies at the amphitheatre, built in the 1630s behind the residence in the Boboli Gardens. ## Related artworks - [Nocturnal Carousel in the Amphitheatre of the Boboli Gardens]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()