Tag: Catherine de Medici

• Sofonisba Painted Catalina Micaela, the Lady in Ermine, Infanta of Spain, as a child and an adult

  Sofonisba Anguissola first painted Catalina Micaela, Infanta of Spain, the Lady in Ermine, when Catalina Micaela was a child. Sofonisba Anguissola rendered a miniature painting of each Infanta of Spain in a Book of Hours, previously owned by the French King Francois I who passed it to his daughter in law Catherine de Medici on…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  October 19, 2018

  Sofonisba’s Life

  Book of Hours, Catalina Micaela, Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, Habsburgs, Infanta of Spain, italian, Lady in Ermine, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, Spanish Habsburgs, women artists

• Sofonisba and the Habsburg-Valois Royal Wedding 1560

  Sofonisba was one of the 17 original ladies in waiting chosen for the court of the new fourteen year old Spanish queen, the former Elisabeth de Valois, daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici. Eight Spanish noblewomen and eight French noblewomen comprised the rest of the young queen’s court. Sofonisba stood out…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  October 10, 2018

  Sofonisba’s Life

  #Sofonisba, Catherine de Medici, Cremona, Duke of Mantua, Elisabeth de Valois, Habsburg, italian, Philip II, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, royal wedding 1560, Valois, women artists