Isabella of Naples

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Isabella of Naples

(Not to be confused with Isabella of Aragon
Isabella of Aragon

Isabella of Aragon , infanta of Aragon, was, by marriage, Queen consort of France in the Middle Ages from 1270 to 1271....
, Queen of France.)

Isabella di Aragona (October 2 1470 – February 11 1524) was born a princess of Naples
Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples is the modern day name for a polity which existed on the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Also known contemporaneously, and somewhat confusingly, as the Kingdom of Sicily, this kingdom was founded after the secession of the island of Sicily from the old Kingdom of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers...
, granddaughter of King Ferdinand I of Naples

Ferdinand I of Naples

Ferdinand I , also called Don Ferrante, was the Monarchs of Naples and Sicily from 1458 to 1494. He was the natural son of Alfonso V of Aragon by Giraldona Carlino....
and daughter of King Alphonse II of Naples

Alfonso II of Naples

Alfonso II of Naples , also called Alfonso II d'Aragon, though he was King of Naples only from January 25, 1494 to 1495—with the title King of Naples and King of Jerusalem—was a patron of Renaissance poets and builders during his long tenure as the heir to the throne of Naples, with the title duca di Calabria....
by his wife, Ippolita Maria Sforza

Ippolita Maria Sforza

Ippolita Maria Sforza , Duchess of Calabria, was a member of the powerful Italian condottieri Sforza family which ruled the Duchy of Milan from 1450 until 1535....
. From 1489 to 1494 she was the Duchess Consort of Milan

Duchy of Milan

The Duchy of Milan was a state in northern Italy from 1394 to 1797. It was part of the Holy Roman Empire, by then a decentralised entity, and was ruled by several dynasties, most of them major powers from outside Italy....
, and from 1499 to 1524 the Duchess of Bari

Bari

Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic sea, in Italy. It is the second economic centre of mainland Southern Italy and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas....
and Princess of Rossano

Rossano

Rossano is a town and commune in Southern Italy, in the province of Cosenza . The city is situated on an eminence two miles from the Gulf of Taranto....
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Ferdinand I of Naples

Alfonso II of Naples

Ippolita Maria Sforza

Duchy of Milan

Bari

Rossano

Rossano is a town and commune in Southern Italy, in the province of Cosenza . The city is situated on an eminence two miles from the Gulf of Taranto....
. After her brother

Ferdinand II of Naples

Ferdinand II or Ferrante II of Naples , sometimes known as Ferrandino, was List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily from 1495 to 1496....
Ferdinand II's death, she was the heir of the Brienne claim

Brienne claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Hugh, Count of Brienne claimed the King of Jerusalem in 1264 as senior heir of Hugh I of Cyprus and Alice of Jerusalem, being the son of their eldest daughter, but was passed over by the Haute Cour in favor of his cousin Hugh III of Cyprus....
to the title King of Jerusalem.

She married her first cousin Gian Galeazzo II. Maria Sforza

Gian Galeazzo Sforza

Gian Galeazzo Sforza was the sixth Duke of Milan.Born in Abbiategrasso, he was only 7 years old when in 1476 his father, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, was assassinated and Gian Galeazzo became the List of rulers of Milan....
, who at the time was the Duke of Milan

Duchy of Milan

Ludovico Sforza

Ludovico Sforza Duke of Milan , a member of the Sforza dynasty of Milan, Italy, was the second son of Francesco Sforza, and was famed as patron of Leonardo da Vinci and other artists....
was the de facto

De facto

De facto is a Latin expression that means "concerning the fact" or in practice but not necessarily ordained by law. It is commonly used in contrast to de jure when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or contrary to a regulation....
ruler. With Gian Galeazzo II. Maria Sforza she had one son and two daughters: Francesco

Francesco Sforza (il Duchetto)

Francesco Sforza, nicknamed Il Duchetto was the eldest son of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan, and Isabella of Naples.He was count of Pavia from 1491 to 1499....
, who was taken to France by the French King Louis XII.

Louis XII of France

Louis XII , called "the Father of the People" was the thirty-fifth List of French monarchs of France and the sole monarch from the House of Valois Cadet branch of the House of Valois....
in 1499, Bona

Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza d'Aragona was a member of the House of Sforza who in 1518 became the second wife of Sigismund I of Poland.When her mother Isabella of Naples died in 1524, Bona succeeded to the titles Duchess of Bari and Princess of Rossano....
, who married King Sigismund I of Poland, and Ippolita Maria, who died in 1501 at the age of seven. Isabella also outlived Francesco, who was killed in 1512 by falling from his horse. Of her three children, only Bona survived her.

In the 1970s Robert Payne

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne , was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer.Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother....
was the first to suggest that Isabella was the subject of the Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa is a 16th century portrait painting painted in oil painting on a poplar panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance....
, the portrait by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
whose subject was traditionally thought to be Lisa Gherardini or Lisa del Giocondo. In 2003 historian Maike Vogt-Lüerssen concurred with Payne and argued that the subject was a member of the House of Sforza

House of Sforza

Sforza was a ruling family of Renaissance Italy, based in Duchy of Milan.The dynasty was founded by Muzio Sforza, called Sforza a condottiero from Romagna serving the Angevin kings of Naples....
because of the pattern on the subject's dark green dress. The 2005 discovery of a note by Agostino Vespucci is commonly used to diminish this theory. However, since Vespucci does not provide any description of the painting, it could refer to any of Leonardo's female portrait paintings of that time.

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by Francesco Laurana
Francesco Laurana

Francesco Laurana , , was a Dalmatian-born Sculpture and medallist. In Croatia he was also known as Frane Vranjanin....
at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstra?e, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world....
in Vienna
Vienna

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