Tag: 1561

Danae (1560-1565)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 181.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other…

Lucrezia di Cosimo I de’ Medici

(1545–1561) Lucrezia de’ Medici Duchessa di Ferrara, Modena e Reggio (1558-1561) Born February 14 1545 Firenze (Italia) Died April 21 1561 Ferrara (Italia) Cause of death Tuberculosis Father Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) Grandfather Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498-1526) Grandmother…

Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife (c.1560-1565)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife c.1560–1565 Oil on oak, 22 x 18.4 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Such studies of facial expressions, known as tronies, served to capture a fleeting moment of powerful emotion and its…

1561

Rulers: • Caterina de’ Medici, Queen regent of France (1519-1589) • Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-1569) • Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) • Felipe II, King of Spain (1556-1598) • Mary I, Queen of Scotland (1542-1567) Births: • Bacon,…

Dulle Griet (1561)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 1561 Oil on panel, 117.4 x 162 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp ‘Like a director of horror films, the painter tried to appeal to all the senses in order to…