THE WIFE OF CARLO DOLCE.Red dress. Brown cap. Holds a scroll and an olive branch.By Carlo Dolce.
THE WIFE OF CARLO DOLCE.Red dress. Brown cap. Holds a scroll and an olive branch.By Carlo Dolce.
THE WIFE OF CARLO DOLCE.
Red dress. Brown cap. Holds a scroll and an olive branch.
By Carlo Dolce.
THIS painter was born in 1616, and died 1686. His heads of Madonnas, female saints, and Herodias, are, for the most part, portraits of his wife or daughter. Of the latter there is a head in a Florentine palace, crowned with bay leaves, representing Poetry, which has more depth of colouring and expression than is generally observable in the works of this master.
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ELEANORA D’ESTE.Blue and pink cap. White dress. Red drapery. Pearl necklace. Chain and pendant.BORN 1537, DIED 1581.By Pierin del Vaga.
ELEANORA D’ESTE.Blue and pink cap. White dress. Red drapery. Pearl necklace. Chain and pendant.BORN 1537, DIED 1581.By Pierin del Vaga.
ELEANORA D’ESTE.
Blue and pink cap. White dress. Red drapery. Pearl necklace. Chain and pendant.
BORN 1537, DIED 1581.
By Pierin del Vaga.
SHE was the sister of Alfonso d’Este, the second Duke of Ferrara, but is immortalised in history and fiction, prose and verse, as the object of Torquato Tasso’s unfortunate passion. The story of his residence at her a brother’s Court, and at that of Urbino, where her elder sister, Lucrezia, was Duchess, has so often been told, and the details of his relations with the two Princesses so ill authenticated and so variously narrated, that we do no more than allude to the fact of the affection which subsisted between them, although by many writers it is questioned which of the two Princesses reigned supreme in the heart of the Laureate, who was never wearied of singing the praises of both these noble ladies.
This picture was bought in Italy by Emily, wife of the fifth Earl Cowper, and given by her to her husband at the time he was occupied in building the new picture gallery at Panshanger.
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