D’Este was a great patron of the arts, supporting painters such as Mantegna, Titian, and da Vinci, all of whom she commissioned to paint her portrait. Le Portrait d'Isabelle d'Este est un carton réalisé entre décembre 1499 et début mars 1500 par le peintre florentin Léonard de Vinci, pour un tableau qui n'a très probablement jamais été réalisé.Cependant, en 2010, un portrait peint est retrouvé dans une collection particulière italienne. Her style of dressing in caps ('capigliari') and plunging décolletage was imitated throughout Italy and at the French court.Isabella d'Este has been proposed as a plausible candidateDespite her significant art patronage, which included a number of portraits – no other person of her time was so often portrayedIn recent years several museums have withdrawn their few identifications of portraits as Isabella because of the risk of misidentification.At present the 1495 medal by Gian Cristoforo Romano (several extant copies) is the only reliable identification because of the inscription created during Isabella's lifetime.Isabella had met the French king in Milan in 1500 on a successful diplomatic mission which she had undertaken to protect Mantua from French invasion. This famous drawing is a She was a prolific letter-writer and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her sister-in-law Isabella d'Este grew up in a cultured family in the city-state of In the year of Ferrante's birth, Isabella travelled to Naples with her mother. il était patron les arts et leader Mode, dont le style novateur de la robe a été copiée par les femmes dans toute l'Italie et la cour française. Together Isabella and Francesco had eight children:A year after her marriage to Isabella's brother AlfonsoIsabella played an important role in Mantua during the city's troubled times. Isabella left behind a voluminous correspondence of more than 2,000 letters, which provide much insight into the world of the Italian Renaissance. Ce dessin, conservé par le département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, est exceptionnellement présenté dans la grande exposition « Léonard de Vinci ». Portrait d’Isabelle d’Este par Léonard de Vinci vers 1499-1500. This she did with great skill. Grünewald: Masterpieces from the Kunstmuseum Basel" at Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (2015).

1474/1478The Armand Hammer Collection, The Armand Hammer Daumier Collection, The Codex Hammer, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1983The Armand Hammer Collection, The Armand Hammer Daumier Collection, The Codex Hammer, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1983Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forum Decorat [reverse], ca. Isabella's fascination with black child servants is extensively documented.As a widow, Isabella at the age of 45 became a "devoted head of state".Isabella left Mantua for Rome in 1527. She was present during the catastrophic After Rome became stabilized following the sacking, she left the city and returned to Mantua. In 1498, she determined to surround herself with the most eminent contemporary artists and find the best portrait painter, one who could produce a perfect imitation of nature; her choice fell on Leonardo da Vinci.

Grünewald: Masterpieces from the Kunstmuseum Basel" at Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (2015). "The Sultan's World: The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art" at The Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels (2015) 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.

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. She operated a perfume and cosmetic pharmacy that produced soaps and scents for herself and her friends, and she excelled in fashion design, creating for herself a signature style that other women in Europe were eager to imitate. Elle est restée célèbre dans l'histoire comme la Première dame de la Renaissance. It is also Elle est restée célèbre dans l'histoire comme la Première dame de la Renaissance Cranach. Copie de Léonard de Vinci, profil d'Isabelle d'Este, XIXe siècle, Münich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv.2155.jpg 361 × 464; 23 KB D'après L de Vinci, Portrait d'Isabelle d'Este, 1e moitié du XVIe, Londres, British Museum.jpg 362 × 492; 48 KB Leonardo da Vinci is one of the foremost artists in the history of Western art, famed for painting the Mona Lisa (ca. 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. Leonardo disguised his subject’s substantial figure in her billowing sleeves. 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. Indeed, in addition to governing, she was an accomplished musician who played a number of keyboard and stringed instruments. the only known drawing by the master that is highlighted with several colored pigments. Leonardo da Vinci left Milan in 1499 when the French army invaded Italy. Kaplan, "Isabella d'Este and black African women," Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)Joaneath Spicer, "European Perceptions of Blackness as Reflected in the Visual Arts," Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2012)