Focusing on the diverse modes of representation of royal figures—from prints and medals to other less conventional portraits of kings and queens—exhibition curators Cordélia de Brosses, CC ’16, Hélène Cesbron Lavau, MC ’16, and Stephanie Wisowaty, TD ’16, offer a thematic tour of Le Goût du Prince: Art and Prestige in Sixteenth-Century France.
Gallery Talk, Royal Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century France
Johannes Wierix, Henry III, King of France and Poland, ca. 1585, published 1647. Engraving. Private collection