18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

A Few Robust 16C Women

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, 1528-1588) A Lady or Saint Agnes

Leandro Bassano (Italian Mannerist Painter, 1557-1622) Dogaressa Morosina Morosini c 1590

Painting Associated with the Artist or the Workshop of Alessandro Allori (1535-1607) Bianca Cappello (1548-1587)

Francesco Montemezzano (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1540–after 1602). Portrait of a Lady

Giovanni Cariani (c. 1490 – 1547) Portrait of a Woman 1500s

Giovanni Cariani (c. 1490 – 1547), Portrait of a Lady c 1560s

Palma Vecchio (1480-1528), Portrait of Paola Priuli Querini 1527-28

Paolo Moranda Cavazzola (1486–1522) Portrait of a Lady

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (1528–1588) Portrait of a Lady c 1580s

1545 Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (1490-1553) Anna von Glauburg

1552 Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal by Antonio Mor

1550 Francesco Montemezzano (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1540–after 1602). Venetian Woman

Follower of Titian Perhaps Pellerrina Morosini Capello c 1558

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (1528–1588) Portrait of a Woman, Called La Bella Nani

Parrasio Micheli Portrait of a Venetian Woman c1550s

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (1528–1588), Portrait of a Venetian Lady 1570

1540 Hans Eworth (c 1520-1547) Portrait of Lady Dacre

Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (1518-94). Portrait of a Lady c 1570s

Tintoretto Domenico Robusti (1560-1635) Portrait of a Courtesan c 1599

Unknown artist of the Venetian School, 1540s

1570s Anonymous Brescian Artist, Portrait of a Lady

1570s Francesco Montemezzano (Italian, Venetian, c . 1540–after 1602). Portrait of a Woman (possibly Picabella Pagliarani, wife of Giacomo Ragazzoni)

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

16C European Women in the 1st Quarter of the Century

1520 Bernardino Luini (1485-1532)  Mary Magdalen

1520 Joos van Cleve (Netherlandish artist, fl 1507-1541) Lucretia

1520 Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556) St Catherine of Alexandria

1520 Palma il Vecchio (1480-1528) La Bella

1520 The Family of Thomas More, copy by Lockey of a lost original by Holbein Detail

1520 Titian Tiziano Vercelli (Italian painter, 1488-1556) Violante

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

15C & 16C Women attr to Lucas Cranach (Elder 1472-1553) & (Younger 1515-1586) + their Followers

Lucas Cranach the Younger (Northern Renaissance Painter, (1515-68)) and his workshop Princess Elizabeth of Saxony

1562 Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-68) and his workshop Lucretia Freifrau von Berlepsch

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Woman 1528

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop 1526 - Portrait of Margareth von Ponickau

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Young Woman 1530

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Katharina Luther 1528

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, 1529

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Margaret of Austria 1520s

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Woman 1539

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop The Saxon Princesses (Sibyl, Emilia and Sidonia of Saxe) c 1535

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Martha Luther wife of Hans 1527

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Young Lady Holding Grapes

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Princess Maria of Saxony

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Donatrix

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Sibylle von Kleve c 1531

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a young Girl 1540

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop St. Helena with the True Cross, Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Young Woman 1522

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop St Catherine and St Barbara

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Christiana Eulenau 1534

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  A Princess of Saxonly 1517

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  A Young Woman 1525

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Portrait of Catherine Bore wife of Martin Luther 1529

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Portrait of Anna Cuspinian 1502

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Young Mother and Child

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Portrait of Frau Reuss 1503

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Magdalena of Saxony Margravine of Brandenburg 1520

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Portrait of a Woman 1513

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  María Magdalena

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  María Magdalena

1520 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Barbara Jagielion (1478-1534)

1526 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Portrait of a Woman

1526 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553)  and his workshop  Porträt der Prinzessin Sibylle von Cleve als Braut

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Bethrothal portrait of Sybelle of Cleves

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Female Half Figure with Hat

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop St Dorothea

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Sybelle of Cleves, sister of Anne of Cleves

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Lady 1541

 1518 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Anna Buchner

 1525-30 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Young woman with a red hat

 1526 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Sybille of Cleves, Electress Saxony

 1534 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Christiana Eulenau

 1540 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a lady

 1543 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Anna von Minckwitz

 1547 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Katherine of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony

 1550 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Anna of Denmark Electress of Saxony 1550

 1555 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of Katharina Jagiellonka

 1555 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Queen Bona Sforza d'Aragona (1494-1557)

 1564 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of a Lady

 1565 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Barbara Radziwill

 1565 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Miniature of Elisabeth of  Habsburg

 1579 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop  Margarethe Elisabeth von Ansbach-Bayreuth

1555 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of Anna Jagiellonka

 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Portrait of Sibylle von Cleve, Electress of Saxony (1510-1554)

 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Sybille of Cleves, Electress of Saxony in Coburg dress

Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Wife of Duke Heinrichs des Frommen, Katharina von Mecklenburg Detail

1503 Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Frau Reuss

1527 Lucas Cranach the Elder, Catharina von Bora wife of Martin Luther

1526 Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of a Woman

1526 Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) Porträt der Prinzessin Sibylle von Cleve als Braut

1525 Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) Maria Magdalena

1532 Lucas Cranach (Northern Renaissance Painter, 1472-1553) and his workshop Melancholy