"The Botticelli Renaissance" at Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (2015-2016)Femme en buste, de trois quarts vers la gauche, les bras croisés (Bust of a woman, in three-quarters profile facing left, with folded arms)"Holbein.

Elle est restée célèbre dans l'histoire comme la Première dame de la Renaissance Cranach.

Leonardo da Vinci left Milan in 1499 when the French army invaded Italy. Leonardo da Vinci left Milan in 1499 when the French army invaded Italy. the only known drawing by the master that is highlighted with several colored pigments.

Eleonora became the Duchess of Urbino when she married Francesco Maria della Rovere; Federico succeeded his father as marchese of Mantua and was later made the first duke of Mantua; Ippolita and Livia Osanna both joined monastic communities; Ercole became a cardinal of the Catholic Church and presided over the third session of the Council of Trent; and Ferrante served with distinction as an officer in the imperial army of Charles V.Her second duty was to act as co-regent of the Mantuan state. On his way to Venice he stopped at Mantua, where Isabella d'Este asked him to paint her portrait.

Cranach. When her husband was captured in 1509 and held hostage in Venice, she took control of Mantua's military forces and held off the invaders until his release in 1512.

She transformed Mantua into a cultural center by converting the ducal apartments into a museum. , « Les relations d’Isabelle d’Este avec Léonard de Vinci », in Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1888, XXXe année, t. XXXVII, p. 121-131.

Each of them had a role to play in the Italian society of the time.

Ce dessin, conservé par le département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, est exceptionnellement présenté dans la grande exposition « Léonard de Vinci ». She was keenly interested in politics, government, and social life and had evident gifts for all three, but it is chiefly for her activities as a patron and a collector that history remembers Isabella d’Este. It is also During her husband’s absences she supervised matters as diverse as criminal justice, diplomacy, land and agricultural management, public health, espionage, and domestic economy.

106, 315, 321; Cartwright, Julia: Several letters mention Isabella's request for overpainting hair and eye colours, i.e. 373–378Alessandro Luzio and Rodolfo Renier, 'Buffoni, schiavi e nani alla corte dei Gonzaga ai tempi d'Esabella d'Este', Nuova Antologia, 19 (1891), pp.
Isabella was a very well educated young woman. Louis had been impressed by her alluring personality and keen intelligence.Isabella was also an extreme example of the Renaissance European tendency to treat black African slaves in her household as exotic accessories. Dit concluderen Da Vinci-kenners na onderzoek van het schilderij, waarop Isabella d’Este, markiezin van Mantua, is afgebeeld. She was actively involved in political intrigues among the nobles of Europe. Grünewald: Masterpieces from the Kunstmuseum Basel" at Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (2015). Leonardo disguised his subject’s substantial figure in her billowing sleeves. When her mother returned to Ferrara, Isabella accompanied her, while the other children stayed behind with their grandfather for eight years.


When in Venice, Leonardo da Vinci showed his portrait of Isabella to his friend Lorenzo da Pavia, who wrote to the Ma… While never completed as a painting, Leonardo’s drawing of Isabella (c. 1499-1500) provides a detailed depiction of the marchesa with a profile view of her face and frontal view of her shoulders. Isabella left behind a voluminous correspondence of more than 2,000 letters, which provide much insight into the world of the Italian Renaissance.