Diane de poitiers and henri ii
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Royal Rivalry: Diane dem Poitiers and Catherine dem Medicis
France is famous—or perhaps infamous—for being a country of passion and heartbreak, of liaisons dangereuses and romantic rifts. Yet amongst the many tales of Parisian paramours and Loire lotharios, the royal rivalry between Diane dem Poitiers and Catherine dem Medicis remains one of the most scandalous and torrid tales of the 16th century.
We'd be remiss without mentioning that, as is generally the case with history, the tale of these two women was recorded and interpreted by men—a note always worth keeping in mind. We sat down with art historian and Italian portraiture specialist Sandra Laville to further investigate. Sandra is an art historian specializing in the link between europeisk art, history and gemenskap from the 15th to the 19th centuries. She holds a Master's grad in Art History from the Université La Sorbonne, where she specialized in Italian Renaissance painting and the iconography of the modern Eu
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Hektoen International
The woman in partial undress shown by Francois Clouet as A Lady in Her Bath is believed to be the famous mistress of the French King Henry II, Diane de Poitiers.1 Born in 1499 in the château of St. Vallier on the river Rhone, Diane descended from a family connected with royalty on both her father and her mother’s side. Her father had a passion for hunting and by age six Diane had learned how to manage a horse. She had a formal education, learning Latin and the classics, and even becoming knowledgeable in medicine by reading the works of Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius.
In 1990 the late Dr. Robert L Schmitz of Chicago reviewed several aspects of her life and appears to have been the first to coin the term mammary narcissism.1 He describes Diane as obsessed with physical fitness, proud of her body and particularly her breasts, exercising regularly, riding horseback and hunting, bathing as often as three times a day in cold water and also at night i
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White Rose of Avalon
Welcome to Royal Romance Week Day Three here at White Rose of Avalon my Darlings. Today’s blog post is going to be about Henri II and his famed mistress Diane de Poitiers! So we are once again looking at a Royal Romance at the French Court, but this time the love story is set in the sixteenth-century, instead of the late seventeenth and eighteenth-century setting of the previous two. Henri II was the son of Francois I of France, who was a contemporary of Henry VIII in England and joined him for the famed ‘Field of the Cloth of Gold’. Henri II came to the throne as a young and virile King who was married to Catherine de Medici in a shrewd political move that tied France more completely to Rome, given her relation to the Pope, even if she was not of Royal birth!
However, it is well known that Henri did not have much interest in his wife, having been besotted with his mistress Diane de Poitiers even before his marriage. What