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Isabel II, veiled. Sculpted. 1855. Torreggiani, Camillo. Torreggiani, a specialist in portrait busts, wanted to break completely with official tradition and impress Queen Isabel II with this spectacular technical feat. The queen’s face is veiled, a device recalling the veiled images of Faith, Virtue and Religion.
Isabel II, veiled. 1855. Carrara marble. Room 061. Torreggiani, a specialist in portrait busts, wanted to break completely with official tradition and impress Queen Isabel II with this spectacular technical feat. The queen’s face is veiled, a device recalling the veiled images of Faith, Virtue and Religion.
Historia del excepcional retrato velado de la reina española Isabel II, obra en mármol de 1855, del escultor Camilo Torreggiani (Ferrara, 1820-1896), conservada en el Museo del Prado History of the exceptional veiled portrait of the Spanish Queen.
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Isabel II-veiled, sculpture in Prado museum, Madrid. Video unavailable. Watch on YouTube. Isabel II, veiled. 1855. Carrara marble. Torreggiani, a specialist in portrait busts, wanted to break completely with official tradition and impress Queen Isabel II with this spectacular technical feat.
Aug 2, 2023 · A New Seven-Foot-Tall Sculpture of a Young Queen Elizabeth II With Her Corgis Becomes the First Monument to the Late Monarch in England. The monument captures the queen in her younger years when, the artist said, "she represented something so hopeful." The U.K.'s first official memorial statue of Queen Elizabeth II by Hywel Brân Pratley.
Isabella II, Queen of Spain. Ca. 1860. Oil on canvas. On display elsewhere. Isabella II ( Madrid, 1830–Paris, 1904). Queen of Spain (1833–68). Across her chest she displays the great Cross and the sash of the Order of the Württemberg and Spanish Crown of María Luisa.