* 1566 – Isabella Clara Eugenia Spanish wife of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria ( d. 1633 )

Cesare Borgia had wanted to take over Mantua while Isabella d ' Este was ruling.

Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer, but all hostility was rendered futile by the enthusiasm that greeted the court performance of his Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer's wife, took a leading part.

Isabella d ' Este ( 19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539 ) was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure.

George, L., The Public Perception of Isabella d ' Este, Clio History Journal, 2009.

* I camerini di Isabella d ' Este Mantua tourist guide.

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* 1789 – María Isabella of Spain ( d. 1846 )

* 1332 – Isabella de Coucy, English daughter of Edward III of England ( d. 1382 )

* 1501 – Isabella of Austria ( d. 1526 )

Francesco's wife was the cultured intellectual Isabella d ' Este, the sister of Alfonso, to whom Lucrezia had made overtures of friendship to no avail.

* 1474 – Isabella d ' Este, Marquise of Mantua ( d. 1539 )

* 1855 – Isabella Ford, English activist ( d. 1924 )

* 1389 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England ( d. 1409 )

* 1830 – Queen Isabella II of Spain ( d. 1904 )

Isabella D ' Este grew up in a cultured family in the city-state of Mantua.

* February 13 – Isabella d ' Este, Marquise of Mantua ( b. 1474 )

* May 18 – Isabella d ' Este, Marquise of Mantua ( d. 1539 )

* Isabella of Savoy ( 1591 – 1626 ), married Alfonso III d ' Este, Hereditary Prince of Modena

Several other individuals have been proposed as the subject of the painting including Isabella of Naples, Cecilia Gallerani, Costanza d ' Avalos, Duchess of Francavilla, Isabella d ' Este, Pacifica Brandano or Brandino, Isabela Gualanda, Caterina Sforza, and Leonardo himself.

October 1510 is also the date of a letter by Isabella d ' Este to a Venetian friend ; asking him to buy a painting by Giorgione ; in the letter she is aware he is already dead.

Bembo himself preferred his poetry to be performed by a female singer accompanied by a lute, a wish which was granted to him when he met Isabella d ' Este in 1505 and sent her a copy of his book.

Drawing of Isabella in her youth for an intended portrait by Leonardo da Vinci

In later years two women would provide him with companionship, friends Elizabeth Croft and Isabella Wolff who first met Lawrence when she sat for her portrait in 1803.

Lawrence was famed for the length of time he took to finish some of his paintings ( Isabella Wolff waited twelve years for her portrait to be completed ) and, at his death, his studio contained a large number of unfinished works.

A photographic portrait of Isabella Beeton | Mrs. Beeton, c. 1860-5.

Isabella d ' Este, an admirer of the work of Leonardo da Vinci, asked to borrow the portrait, but Cecilia replied it no longer looked like her because she had been so young then and ' nobody seeing it and me together would suppose it was made for me '.

In 1428 Jan van Eyck traveled to Portugal to paint a portrait of King John I's daughter Infanta Isabella for Philip in advance of their marriage.

Like the eventual portrait, an oil sketch entitled Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast ( Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ), shows the subject's profile and bare arms against a dark background, but is of a more freely brushed and informal character.

With his wife Susan, Martin had six children who survived to adulthood: Alfred ( who worked with his father as a mezzotint engraver and later became a senior tax official ), Isabella, Zenobia ( who married the artist Peter Cunningham ), Leopold ( who became a clerk ), Charles ( who was trained as a painter by his father, copying a number of his father's works-he later became a successful portrait painter and lived in America-his last exhibit at the Royal Academy was in 1896 ) and Jessie ( who married egyptologist Joseph Bonomi ).

The death of Isabella was observed by the people of Lyon, with a public funeral and an engraved medallion of that year which featured Isabella's portrait on one side, and the figure of Fame on the reverse with the words aeterna fama.

The term was first used to describe the golden excelente either because of its value of two ducats or because of the double portrait of Ferdinand and Isabella.

A fictionalized account of the life of Princess Isabella of England, it paints an extremely romantic portrait of the couple.