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    Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was the Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural...
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    Lucrezia gave birth to her tenth child, named Isabella Maria in honor of Alfonso's sister Isabella d'Este. The child was sickly and – fearing she would...
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    Isabella d'Este (3 October 1635 – 21 August 1666) was Duchess of Parma, and second wife of Duke Ranuccio II Farnese. She was the paternal grandmother...
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    Lisa. The Louvre's caveat is Isabella d'Este's alleged blonde hair. Yet Isabella's portraits Ambras miniature and Isabella in Red represent brown hair...
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    of Isabella d'Este is a drawing (and possible painting) by Leonardo da Vinci which was executed between 1499 and 1500. It depicts Isabella d'Este, Marchioness...
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  • The Studiolo of Isabella d'Este was a special private study, first in castello di San Giorgio, later the Studiolo was moved to the Corte Vecchi apartments...
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    Mary of Modena (Italian: Maria Beatrice Eleonora Anna Margherita Isabella d'Este; 5 October [O.S. 25 September] 1658 – 7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1718) was...
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    Gian Galeazzo, began negotiations with Ercole d'Este to obtain the hand of his eldest daughter Isabella. This was not possible because the child had already...
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    Isabella in Black (also called Portrait of Isabella d'Este) is a portrait of a young woman by Titian. It can be dated to the 1530s and is in the Kunsthistorisches...
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    frescoes were rediscovered and restored in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1519, Isabella d'Este moved her residence from the Castle of St. George to this older sector...
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    its existence may date back to 1531, when it may have been owned by Isabella d'Este. Although many studies of Leonardo's oeuvre are silent on the issue...
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    Princess of Asturias Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan (1470–1524), Princess of Naples, Duchess Consort of Milan Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), Marchesa...
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    The Allegory of Isabella d'Este's Coronation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Costa, dating to about 1505–1506. It is displayed...
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    Alfonso III d'Este (22 October 1591 – 24 May 1644) was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1628 to 1629. He was the husband of Princess Isabella of Savoy, daughter...
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    his father, he was nephew of both Isabella d'Este, "the First Lady of the Renaissance", and Cardinal Ippolito d'Este. His siblings included Ippolito II...
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    Brescia. During Francesco's absences, Mantua was governed by his wife Isabella d'Este, whom he had married on 12 February 1490. Under their reign, Mantua...
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    Federico was son of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and Isabella d'Este. Due to the turbulent politics of the time, from the age of ten, he...
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    Isabella d'Este. These rumors spread to Venice and angered both the Marquis and his father-in-law Ercole, who were quick to deny them. While Isabella...
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    in Cardinal Ippolito d'Este's older sister the Marchioness Isabella d'Este, the "First Lady of the Renaissance." Isabella d'Este appears in Ludovico's...
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    confirms that the painting probably depicts Lisa del Giocondo, with Isabella d'Este being the only plausible alternative. Scholars have developed several...
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    cement relations between the House of Farnese, Maria's older sister Isabella d'Este had been married to Ranuccio Farnese, Duke of Parma, son of Odoardo...
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    House of Este (redirect from D'Este)
    daughter, Isabella (1474–1539), married Francesco Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua. Borso d'Este, the first Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio Leonello d'Este, by...
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    London Virgin of the Rocks (with studio assistance), the Portrait of Isabella d'Este and Saint John the Baptist. Other attributions are more complicated...
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    Ercole I d'Este KG (English: Hercules I; 26 October 1431 – 25 January 1505) was Duke of Ferrara from 1471 until 1505. He was a member of the House of Este...
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    (cabinet) of Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua, in the Castello di San Giorgio. The painting was the third commissioned by Isabella d'Este for her studiolo...
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    commissioned by a specific patron rather than produced on speculation. Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Milan, is cited as a possible patron as in 1504 she had...
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    and he took singular pleasure in it. – Letter from Beatrice d'Este to Isabella d'Este, 12 September 1494. The historian Philip of Comines said of it:...
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    Leandro Ozzola, Isabella d'Este e Tiziano, in Bollettino d'arte, 1931, p. 491-494, Download Emporium Database (10.05.2022). Letter Isabella d'Este, 29.05.1536:...
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    aristocracy in Ferrara. Contrary to other prior d’Este family leaders, such as Azzo VII, Niccolò III, and Isabella d’Este, who had a drive for power and control...
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    Isabella in Red (also called Portrait of the Aged Isabella d'Este) is a portrait of a woman by Peter Paul Rubens in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna...
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