National Geographic History - USA (2022-03 & 2022-04)

HUNTING AND FALCONRY As a metaphor for the inner perfection of the knight, falcons took flight and served their master as the kn ...

60 MARCH/APRIL 2022 Christine de Pisan, who was outspoken about the rights of women. The perilous life of a knight often entaile ...

mmortalized in 1599 by William Shakespeare in Henry V, the Battle of Agincourt proved to be the undoing of the French hero Bouci ...

DEA/BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA/GETTY IMAGES SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA IN A 19TH-CENTURY ITALIAN ENGRAVING SOFONISBA UNSUNG GENIUS OF THE R ...

ARTIST AT WORK Sofonisba Anguissola created “Self-portrait While Painting the Madonna” in Cremona when she was around 24 years o ...

64 MARCH/APRIL 2022 later, baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, for example, was taught by her artist father). Since Amilcare A ...

CHILDREN OF CREMONA From the Torrazzo (bell tower) of the city’s cathedral is a bird’s- eye view of Sofonisba Anguissola’s birth ...

66 MARCH/APRIL 2022 being gloomy and austere. Nevertheless, So- fonisba’s long sojourn in Madrid was marked by close friendships ...

FATHER AND CHILDREN Sofonisba’s father, Amilcare Anguissola, is flanked by his daughter Minerva (about 13 years old) and his son ...

STR ATEGIC SISTERS “they appear alive,” wrote Renaissance art critic Giorgio Vasari of “A Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters Playi ...

“A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST’S SISTERS PLAYING CHESS,” BY SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA, NATIONAL MUSEUM, POZNAN, POLAND BRIDGEMAN/ACI ...

“THE DAMNED SOUL,” ENGRAVING OF A DRAWING BY MICHELANGELO. BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA, MILAN VENERANDA BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA/DEAGOSTI ...

TEACHERS AND IMITATORS in 1562 a friend of Michelangelo wrote to Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici of Florence enclosing one of Sofonisba ...

LIFE AMONG KINGS AND QUEENS A 1559 treaty between Spain and France pro- foundly changed two women’s lives: Under the terms of th ...

Anna of Austria After Queen Isabel’s death in 1568, Philip wed Anna of Austria. This 1573 portrait was once attributed to Alons ...

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MYSTERY ARTIST, MYSTERY WOMAN for many years the painting“Lady in a Fur Wrap” (left) was attributed to El Greco, the Crete-born ...

LIFE AND LEGACY sofonisba anguissola lived to the advanced age of 93. She died in 1625 in Palermo, Sicily, after long outliving ...

VAN DYCK’S SKETCHBOOK SHOWING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS 1624 VISIT WITH SOFONISBA. BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MU ...

TREASURES OF NUNALLEQ THREAT OF THE THAW EDITORS OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC As the seas rise and Alaska’s permafrost melts, the hist ...