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DAVINCI - LA BELLA PRINCIPESSA
Beatrice d'Este
Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia
Commons
1495-6 |
- Colored chalks (black, red and white) and brown ink, on
yellow vellum
(calfskin) with oak panel backing.
- Was once in a bound volume.
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Book of Doom - La Sforziada.
- The beautiful princess.
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Wife of Duke of Milan.
- Sforza Castle.
- Leonardo palmprint in the chalk pigment on the neck of the sitter.
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Pony tail (coazzone which resembles a polo pony's tail).
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Upper echelon of Milanese society.
- Enigmatic smile.
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Facing left, perspective.
- Why the Queen's head faces right on coins but left on stamps.
- Died in 1497 at age 21, stillbirth of 3rd
child.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. (Ecclesiastes
3:1-2)
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- Diamond girl sure do shine.
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Seals and Crofts.
Beatrice d'Este
DaVinci Circle |
Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia
Commons
1500 |
- Beatrice d'Este (1475-1497).
- This portrait came
from Leonardo's 'circle' so may have been his studio.
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Bianca Giovanna Sforza was
the Illegitimate daughter of Ludovico Sforza and her portrait
is often confused with Beatrice.
Bianca
DaVinci
In the light |
- In reality she was said to be the illegitimate daughter
of Ludovico Sforza and her name was Bianca Sforza.
- DaVinci's La Bella Principessa
(The Beautiful Princess) has
also been called Profile of a Young Fiancee.
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It is a portrait in colored chalks and ink, on vellum, of a young lady in fashionable costume and hairstyle of a Milanese of the 1490s.
Signed by Leonardo DaVinci |
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