Portrait of Isabella of Portugal

The Portrait of Isabella of Portugal is an oil-on-canvas portrait of Isabella of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress by Titian dating to 1548. It was part of the Spanish royal collection and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Portrait of Isabella of Portugal

Artist	Titian
Year	1548
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	117 cm × 98 cm (46 in × 39 in)
Location	Museo del Prado, Madrid
Website	Museo del Prado

Description

The subject is Empress Isabella of Portugal (1503–1539), the beloved wife of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, mother of Philip II of Spain and daughter of Manuel I of Portugal. Titian painted her after her death, using a mediocre painting for reference.[1] The portrait follows a classic scheme already used by Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, in which the model sits next to a window opening on a landscape. The landscape gives depth to the composition, and its greenish and bluish tones provide a contrast to the interior scene dominated by warm colors. The figure shows some stiffness, possibly related to the concept of majesty as used in imperial iconography.

She wears a rich red dress and gold brocade and trimmed with rhinestones. It is decorated also with flashy jewelry: a necklace of pearls with a clasp at the chest with gems hanging from another teardrop pearl, a ring on her right hand, and a jewel-topped headdress. Her rigid hairstyle, very fashionable at the time, is made up with braids. The Empress holds an open book in her left hand, perhaps a missal or prayer book, and looks at a distant point with preoccupied expression.

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References

Tiziano Vecellio, Charles Hope, Jennifer Fletcher, Jill Dunkerton, Miguel Falomir Faus, Nicholas Penny, Caroline Campbell, Amanda Bradley, and David Jaffe. 2003. Titian: [National Gallery, London 19 February - 18 May 2003]. London: National Gallery. p. 36. ISBN 1857099044.

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List of works
Portraits	Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter (1503–06) A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (c. 1509) La Schiavona (1510–1512) Of a Man (1512) A Knight of Malta (c. 1515) Vincenzo Mosti (c. 1520) Young Woman in a Black Dress (c. 1520) Man with a Glove (c. 1520) Laura Dianti (c. 1520–1525) Alfonso I d'Este (1523) Federico II Gonzaga (c. 1529) Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos with a Page (1533) Charles V with a Dog (1533) Ippolito de' Medici (1533) Giacomo Doria (1533–1535) Isabella d'Este (1534–1536) La Bella (c. 1536) Girl in a Fur (1536-1538) Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere (1538) Francesco Maria della Rovere (1538) A Young Englishman (1540–1545) Clarissa Strozzi (1542) The Vendramin Family (1543–1547) Pietro Aretino (1545) Lavinia Vecellio (c. 1545) Pope Paul III (1545–46) Pope Paul III and His Grandsons (1545–46) Pier Luigi Farnese (1546) Charles V (on horseback) (1548) Charles V (seated) (1548) Isabella of Portugal (1548) A General (c.1550) Philip II in Armour (1550) Portrait of Philip II (1554) Christina of Denmark (1555–56) Jacopo Strada (1567–68) Portrait of a Lady in White (c. 1561)
Self portraits	Self-Portrait (1546–47) Self-Portrait (c. 1560)
Secular	Pastoral Concert (c. 1509 – also attributed to Giorgione) Dresden Venus (with Giorgione, c. 1510) Miracle of the Jealous Husband (1511) The Three Ages of Man (c. 1512–1514) Sacred and Profane Love (c. 1514) The Feast of the Gods (1514) Lucretia and her Husband (1515) The Bravo (c. 1515) Flora (c. 1515) Salome (c. 1515) Vanity (c. 1515) Violante (c. 1515) Woman with a Mirror (c. 1515) The Worship of Venus (1518–19) Venus Anadyomene (c. 1520) Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–1523) The Bacchanal of the Andrians (1523–1526) Eleven Caesars (1536-1540) Venus of Urbino (1538) Alfonso d'Avalos Addressing his Troops (1540) Venus and Musician (1540s on, series) The Punishment of Tythus (1549) Danaë (series) (1543–1565) Venus and Adonis (several versions) Pardo Venus (1551) Venus with a Mirror (1555) Perseus and Andromeda (1554-1556) Diana and Actaeon (1556–1559) Diana and Callisto (1556–1559) The Death of Actaeon (c. 1559–1575) The Rape of Europa (c. 1560–1562) Venus Blindfolding Cupid (c. 1565) Allegory of Prudence (c. 1565–1570) Tarquin and Lucretia (comp. 1571) Flaying of Marsyas (1570–1576)
Religious	Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1505 – also attributed to Giorgione) Bache Madonna (c. 1508) Lochis Madonna (1508-151510) St. Mark Enthroned (c. 1510) The Gypsy Madonna (c. 1510) Holy Family with a Shepherd (c.1510) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1512) Balbi Holy Conversation (c. 1513) Noli me tangere (c. 1514) Madonna of the Cherries (1515) The Tribute Money (c. 1516) Assumption of the Virgin (1516–1518) The Virgin and Child with Saint George and Saint Dorothy (1516–1518) Pesaro Madonna (1519–1526) Gozzi Altarpiece (1520) Malchiostro Annunciation (c. 1520) The Entombment of Christ (c. 1520) Averoldi Polyptych (1520–1522) The Aldobrandini Madonna (1530) The Madonna of the Rabbit (1530) Madonna of the Roses (c.1530) Saint Jerome in Penitence (1531) Penitent Magdalene (1533) The Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (1534-1538) Saint John the Baptist (1540) The Crowning with Thorns (1542–43) The Fall of Man (c. 1550) Saint Jerome in Penitence (1552) The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (c. 1548–1559) La Gloria (1554) Mater Dolorosa (c. 1555) Saint Jerome in Penitence (1575) Crucifixion (1558) The Entombment (1559) St Margaret and the Dragon (c. 1559) Annunciation (1559–1564) Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1560) Penitent Magdalene (1565) Religion saved by Spain (1572-1575) Saint Sebastian (c. 1575) The Crowning with Thorns (1576) Pietà (1576)
Related	Orazio Vecellio (son) Francesco Vecellio (brother)

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