Archduchess portraits (Renaissance paintings)
A series of paintings that an Italian Renaissance artist painted at the Viennese court around 1563 is sometimes named as archduchess portraits. The bust portraits of the Habsburg archduchesses . They show the daughters of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand I von Habsburg in childhood and one picture shows Anna, the daughter of Maximilian II. The “airy and Italian brio” portraits of women are attributed to the Viennese court painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo due to their “Italianizing” stylistic features . There is documentary evidence that Arcimboldo was given the commission for portraits at the court, but the portraits of the archduchesses cannot be separately verified.
The portraits of the Archduchesses in oil on wood by the Italian Renaissance artist are now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna:
- Half-length portrait of a daughter of Ferdinand I (Archduchess Helena or Barbara?)
- Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532–1590)
- Archduchess Johanna von Österreich (1547–1578) aged around 9–10 years
- Archduchess Anna of Austria (1549–1580)
Archduchess Helena or Barbara?
Archduchess Johanna
Archduchess Magdalena
Archduchess Anna
Differentiation from the master of the archduchesses
Almost two hundred years later, in the Rococo , another painter created a series of portraits of the Habsburg archduchesses. This artist, not known by name, is sometimes referred to as the Master of the Archduchesses .
Individual evidence
- ↑ see e.g. Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Musée national du Luxembourg, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (ed.): Arcimboldo. 1526–1593 (exhibition catalog, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). London, Milan a. a. 2008, p. 87.
literature
- Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Ed.): Arcimboldo - An exhibition of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the sVo-Musée du Luxembourg, Paris. February 12 to June 1, 2008 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie . Vienna 2008, p.?. ( Brief description of the exhibition: PDF file at khm , accessed June 2011)
- Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Musée national du Luxembourg, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (ed.): Arcimboldo. 1526–1593 (exhibition catalog, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). London, Milan a. a. 2008, p.?.