1500
oil
panel
From the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Portrait of Queen Caterina Cornaro is a 1500 oil by Gentile Bellini, a High Renaissance work, held at Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Portrait of Catherine Cornaro is an oil-on-wood painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Gentile Bellini, created c. 1500. It is held at the Museum of Fine Arts, in Budapest.
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This is one of the few surviving portraits of the Venetian patrician and queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, wife of King James II. In 1489, Catherine abdicated in favor of the Venetian Republic and lived in seclusion in Asolo, near Venice. Gentile Bellini created at least two other images of Catherine. The second portrait is held in the Avogadro collection and was Catherine's wedding gift to one of her court ladies. The third known image of Catherine, also by Bellini, is visible in his painting Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo, from 1500, kneeling in the company of her manor…
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Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – 23 February 1507) was a Venetian painter of the school of Venice. He came from Venice's leading family of painters, and, at least in the early part of his career, was more highly regarded than…
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