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This is the last portrait of Vibia Sabina (83-136 A. D.), wife of the emperor Hadrian. It does not represent her at her real age (some 48 years), but is a highly idealised and rejuvenated image. Her hairstyle is not a traditional roman one but is inspired by the imagery of the goddess of Diana.
Empress Isabella of Portugal. 1548. Oil on canvas. Room 056. The portraits that Titian painted of Isabella (1503-1539), daughter of King Manuel of Portugal and wife of Charles V from 1526, constitute one of the most moving episodes within Renaissance art.
In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing female monster resembling a lion in the forepart, a goat in the middle and a dragon in the hind. According to legend, she was a daughter of Typhaon and Echidna, and had three heads, one for each of the three animals of which she was composed.
Tintoretta, Marietta Robusti. Venice, 1550 - Venice, 1590. Daughter and follower of Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto, she was known in her time as "buona ritrattista" ("a good portrait painter"), both in Venice and abroad.
Image archive. Request artworks available in our catalogue in digital format. The series of paintings featuring the ‘children in the water’ motif culminates in this work, in which nude boys play a greater part in the composition than in other pictures by Sorolla.
Dressed in grey, Christine of Sweden appears on a rearing horse, which symbolizes her status as queen and her power in seventeenth-century Europe. The presence of a falconer beside the dogs alludes to her high station, as hunting was an exercised reserved for royalty and aristocracy.
The eldest daughter of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and a granddaughter of Charles III, the Archduchess María Teresa Habsburg-Lorena is shown here at full length, next to a caged parrot. Her dress, with its short train, is of cream-colored satin with pink bows and trimming on the tulle front panel of the bodice, and she wears a pink, bejeweled cap.
