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Titian and Isabella d’Este: The Truth of a Portrait

Two painted versions of Isabella d’Este have come to define her association with Titian, although neither records a simple encounter between painter and sitter. One, generally called Isabella in Red, is known principally through a copy made by Peter Paul Rubens after a lost Titian and shows Isabella as a mature woman. The other, IsabellaContinue reading “Titian and Isabella d’Este: The Truth of a Portrait”

Posted byex.tempore12th Sep 202612th Sep 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:art and politics, court culture, Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere, female patronage, Giulio Romano, Gonzaga, idealisation, Isabella d’Este, Italian Renaissance, Kunsthistorisches Museum, likeness, Mantua, Margherita Paleologo, Peter Paul Rubens, portraiture, Renaissance fashion, Renaissance portraiture, Renaissance women, Titian, Uffizi, women and power
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