Isabella Of France

Isabella of France

She is an assortment of everything divine at once.

John Douglas Miller (1860-1903) after Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), Summer Slumber, 1898, etching. - Aesthethos Facebook - Instagram - Shop

Henryk Siemiradzki / “Nero’s Torches” / 1876 / National Museum, Kraków

Henryk Siemiradzki [Polish. 1843 - 1902] Conversation by the spring, c.19th century

Maxmilián Pirner (1854-1924), Somnambulant, 1878, oil on canvas, 157 x 87 cm. National Gallery Prague - Mysterious Art Century Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - Pinterest

“If Isabella was a mere pawn on the royal marriage market, then so too was her husband. Depicting medieval royal and noble women as unwilling pawns in a game of power politics played by men which has nothing to do with them, however kindly it may be meant, gives a disagreeable impression of fragile, submissive victim hood, which in Isabella’s case at least is entirely unwarranted. Isabella was as well-versed in the game of politics as anyone, and certainly was not a feeble chess-piece maneuvered by the hands of powerful men, anachronistically waling, ‘But I don’t love him!’ when informed that she will marry the future king of England.” – Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen by Kathryn Warner