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Alfonso D'Este Duke of Ferrara di Tiziano degli anni Etsy Italia

Alfonso II. d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Reggio and Modena. He was married three times: His first wife was Lucrezia de´Medici (1545-1561), his second wife was Barbara von Österreich (1539-1572) and his third wife was Margherita Gonzaga (1564-1618). He had no children from all three wives.


Portrait of Alfonso d'Este duke of Ferrara posters & prints by Corbis

Alfonso II d'Este, duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, was the son of Ercole II d'Este and Réné of France. He was educated at the French court. He ascended the throne on 26 November 1559. At the insistence of Pope Pio IV, he sent his mother, a Calvinist (1560), back to France. He maintained a brilliant court, including such artists and.


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Alfonso I, (born July 21, 1476, Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara—died Oct. 31, 1534, Ferrara), duke of Ferrara from 1505, a noted Renaissance prince of the House of Este, an engineer and patron of the arts. Alfonso succeeded to the duchy at the death of his father, Ercole I. He employed the poet Ludovico Ariosto and the painters Titian and Giovanni.


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Alfonso d'Este as Knight of the Order of Saint Michael, by Dosso Dossi. Lucrezia Borgia, 1512. He was the son of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Eleanor of Naples and became duke on Ercole's death in January 1505. In the first year of his rule he uncovered a plot by his brother Ferrante and half-brother Giulio d'Este, directed against him.


Alfonso II d’Este Duke of Ferrara Italy On This Day

Biography Son of Ercole II d'Este and his wife Renée of France (daughter of Louis XII of France); married Lucrezia de' Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici (q.v.), in 1558; she died in 1560 and in 1565 he married Barbara of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I; after her death in 1572 he married, in 1597, her niece Margherita Gonzaga, daughter of Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke.


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Biography. Alfonso was the elder son of Ercole II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany and was the fifth and last Duke of Ferrara.. As a young man, Alfonso fought in the service of Henry II of France against the Habsburgs.Soon after his accession, he was forced by Pope Pius IV to send his mother back to France due to her increasingly Calvinist.


Portrait of Alfonso d'Este duke of Ferrara posters & prints by Corbis

In house of Este: Ercole II and Alfonso II..to rule was his first-born, Alfonso II (reigned 1559-97), the fifth and last duke of Ferrara. He also tried, vainly, to be elected king of Poland and to organize a crusade against the Turks. More important for the dynasty, however; was the fact that, though Alfonso II had three marriages,….


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The main characters in The Marriage Portrait are Lucrezia de' Medici, Alfonso II d'Este, and Emilia. Lucrezia de' Medici is the youngest daughter of the powerful Medici family of Florence.


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Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 - 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1558 to 1561. Married to the intended husband of her elder sister Maria, who died young, her marriage was short and unhappy. The Duchess died of pulmonary tuberculosis, but almost.


third husband of Lucrezia Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara The Lucrezia

Alfonso II d'Este. Son of Ercole II and Renée of France, Alfonso II was the fifth and last Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, from 1559 to 1597. Brought up according to the careful, refined literary and chivalrous educational and cultural traditions, the life of Alfonso II d'Este was characterised by the pursuit of honours and titles.


Kunsthistorisches Museum Alfonso II. d´Este, Herzog von Ferrara und Modena

Thanks to Art UK Volunteer the late Alistair Brown, the sitter was identified as not Sir Thomas Gresham, but Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. It seems most likely that this work is a copy, possibly English, of an Italian portrait of Alfonso. It relates to a portrait attributed to an Italian (Ferrarese) painter, in the Metropolitan Museum.


1721 Copper Engraving Portrait Alfonso II d'Este Duke Ferrara House Este EUM3 Copper engraving

Alfonso II d'Este, who was to be the last Duke of Ferrara, was born on this day in 1533 in Ferrara in Emilia-Romagna. Famous as the protector of the poet Torquato Tasso, Alfonso II also took a keen interest in music. He was also the sponsor of the philosopher Cesare Cremonini, who was a friend of both Tasso and the scientist and astronomer.


Renée of France Kyra Cornelius Kramer

Quick Reference. (1533-97), Duke of Ferrara, the elder son of Duke Ercole II d' Este and Renée of France. He lived in France at the court of King Henri II from 1551. From: Este, Alfonso II d' in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance ». Subjects: History — Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)


Italian (Ferrarese) Painter Alfonso II d'Este (15331597), Duke of Ferrara Italian, Ferrara

Alfonso II d'Este (November 22, 1533 October 27, 1597) was duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. He was a member of the house of Este. He was the elder son of Ercole II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany. As a young man, he fought in the service of Henry II of France, fighting against the Habsburgs.


Italian (Ferrarese) Painter Alfonso I d'Este (14761534), Duke of Ferrara Italian, Ferrara

Sterling, Charles. "XV-XVIII Centuries." In The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of French Paintings.Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955.


Sold Price ATTRIBUTED TO PROSPERO SPANI, CALLED IL CLEMENTE (15161584) ITALIAN, EMILIA, CIRCA

In 1558, Lucrezia wed Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. It was a marriage of political convenience. Lucrezia was 13 years old. Less than three years later, she was dead. The young duchess died.