Women portraits 16th century hall
Isabella of Habsburg (Isabella of Austria) - Archduchess of Austria, Infanta of Spain and Princess of Burgundy, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, unknown master images: Public domain
A female portrait from the 16th century has a number of distinctive features:
1. The use of layered, lavish, and extravagant attire. Women were depicted wearing high collars, huge voluminous dresses adorned with pearls, beads, and gold.
2. Snow-white skin and a pale face achieved with poisonous cosmetics were popular. The trend for pale blush on cheeks was also common.
3. Strong contrast between dark hair and pale skin. Female portraits of the 16th century often showed women in strong shading, emphasizing the contrast.
4. Depiction of women in a triangle shape. Wide and voluminous dresses and narrow collars created a triangular shape, highlighting the lines of the female body.
5. Abundance of precious stones and jewelry. Female portraits were adorned with gold accessories, feathers, beads, hand embroidery, and other precious materials, emphasizing the status and wealth of women.
These characteristics made female portraits from the 16th century elegant, luxurious, and fashionable, while also being attractive and mysterious.
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In the female portraits of the 16th century there is a greater variety of poses, they are not always so restrained as before. And the garments of heroines become more open or lush, less modest, which gives to the image as a whole greater femininity and naturalness.
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Vincenzo Catena
Portrait of a Woman, c. 1520
Oil on canvas, 55 x 44.5 cm (21 2/3 x 17 1/2 in.)
El Paso Museum of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Italian Renaissance
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Portrait of Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan (1538)
Christina of Milan is the youngest daughter of King of Denmark Christian and Isabella of Hapsburg, the niece of Emperor Charles V. Given out of eleven years to marry Duke of Milan Francesco Maria Sforza, she was widowed at 13. When Henry VIII was going to marry for the fourth time, Christina was one of the contenders. However, Henry chose Anna Klevskaya. After 8 years, Christine remarried for the Duke of Lorraine, Francois. In this [Expand]
But still the girl wasn't happy because of marriages of convenience, no one even doesn’t ask her, just give her in marriage.
The portrait painted on an oak board. Here she is depicted at the time of widowhood. A young pretty woman in a black fur-trimmed velvet dress depicts on a thick green background. She looks at us with sadness. Her face and hands stand out on the canvas with bright spots. In the whole guise of Christina of Denmark, there is the sadness of early widowhood. The artist certainly treats her with sympathy.
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Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 - 1543)
Portrait of a lady with a squirrel and a starling painted by the artist in his first visit to London. This small painting shows a young, but the apparently serious and quite well-behaved woman. All attributes added to her by a portrait painter speak of this. The squirrel clearly symbolizes that the lady is an excellent hostess, making stocks, caring for the welfare and peace of the family, the thrush [Expand]
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Portrait of Lais of Corinth (1526) by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 - 1543)
Lais Corinthian is a known hetaeria (friend, companion) in ancient Greece. This is a woman who leads a free, independent lifestyle. Hetaeriae were well-educated, had excellent manners. In many ways, the hetaeriae of ancient Greece are similar to the geishas of Japan, their task is to entertain a man intellectually, but they entered into a physical connection only at will. Therefore, they could not be called literally [Expand]
Lais of Corinth was unusually good, her services were expensive. Her philosopher Aristipp sought her love. In the image of Lais, the artist depicted Magdalena Offenburg. He dressed her in the European fashion of the 16th century, although in Ancient Greece they did not sew clothes, and women draped their figure with a piece of canvas (the so-called chiton), securing it with hairpins.
Holbein created the image of a touching, tender, romantic woman. Beautiful young hetaeria is sad; she is clearly saddened by her fate. Lais, with bitter bewilderment, looks at the gold coins scattered on the table and the priestesses of love earned by her with the hard work.
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