Tag: Habsburg

• Sofonisba’s Legacy of Invezione Today

  

  I’m delighted to read of Genova’s successful near-completion of the bridge that collapsed so very recently, in 2018. It gives me a feeling of optimism, literally a bridge for the future, inspiring. I can’t resist connecting the success of this modern-day project with Sofonisba’s life of creative invention (invenzione/inventione). Sofonisba and her husband lived in…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  April 29, 2020

  Italy, Travel, and Culture, Sofonisba’s Life

  #Sofonisba, Doria Pamphili Gallery, Habsburg, Michelangelo, Sofonisba Anguissola

• Who Painted the Lady in Ermine? Sofonisba or El Greco?  Biography not Brushstrokes convinces: It’s Sofonisba, Cradle to Grave

  The details of Sofonisba Anguissola’s life show that she had the physical and geographical opportunity to paint a mature Catalina Micaela that her male contemporaries El Greco and Coello did not being far away in Spain. Sofonisba also had personal insight into the Infanta’s private world to render the Infanta of Spain, Catalina Micaela, as…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  December 28, 2018

  History & Influences, Sofonisba’s Life, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Coello, #El Greco, Catalina Micaela, Elisabeth de Valois, Habsburg, Infanta of Spain, Lady in Ermine, Philip II, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, 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