Women Across the Globe & the Centuries

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

16C Women attributed to Raphael 1483–1520

1508 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), St. Catherine of Alexandria

1518 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), many believe that this is Doña Isabel de Requesens, wife of Ramón de Cardona

1520 Presently debating if this portrait should be attributed to Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520) Ritratto di Donna

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), Portrait de la Fornarina

1503-4 attributed to Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), Duchess Elisabetta Gonzaga of Urbino (1471–1526)

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), La Donna Velata (c.1514-1515). This veiled woman is believed to be Raphael's lover, Margerita Luti.

1505-6 Some attribute this painting to Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn

1506 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), Portrait of a Pregnant Woman La Donna Gravida

1506 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), Portrait of Maddalena Doni One of a pair of portraits of a man and his wife.

1507-08 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), La Muta

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), Madonna of the Cloth detail

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), St Cecilia with Saints detail 1516

1515-20 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), Portrait of a Young Girl

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), The Entombment (detail) 1507

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520), The Transfiguration (detail) 1518-20

Monday, March 13, 2023

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.

Sunday, March 12, 2023

16C Women attributed to Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527-1593

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian artist, 1527-1593) Daughter of Ferdinand I (Elena or Barbara ) c 1563

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, & books arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject. His father, Biagio Arcimboldo, was an artist. Like his father, Giuseppe Arcimboldo started his career as a designer for stained glasses & frescoes at local cathedrals when he was 21 years old. In 1562, he became court portraitist to Ferdinand I at the Habsburg court in Vienna, & later, to Maximilian II & his son Rudolf II at the court in Prague. Arcimboldo's conventional work has fallen into oblivion, but his portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, plants, fruits, sea creatures & tree roots, were greatly admired by his contemporaries & remain a source of fascination today.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian artist, 1527-1593) Archduchess Anna, Daughter of Emperor Maximillian II

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian artist, 1527-1593) Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532-1590) 1563

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian artist, 1527-1593) Daughter of Ferdinand I 1563

Saturday, March 11, 2023

18C Women Around the World

Friday, March 10, 2023

16C Women in Green - Spring is Near

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c 1472-1553) Saint Genevieve (Detail)

This Spring I have noticed lots of clothing in a variety of shades of green. Wonder if designers are attracted to green as the leaves burst into bloom.