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Please analyze the source by using the answers to the questions at the bottom, which you are to incorporate with what you’ve learned in the lesson, and use the general historical questions as a guideline and backbone to your essay reply: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?

About 250 words of your analysis should suffice.

Please cite your source (see the bottom, and also instructions on Citation in Course Info).

Re-visit essay instructions outlined for the Virtual Museum Report, and use those which would also be applicable here, and upload by the due date. Thanks!

Document 10.1 – Isabella d’Este Implores Leonardo da Vinci to Paint for Her

From: Julia Cartwright, Isabella d’Este: Marchioness of Mantua, 1474–1539, vol. 1 (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1903), p. 324.

Analyze the Source by answering: What painting does Isabella want? How do you think modern artists would react to getting such specific instructions? What does this fact indicate about the relationship between family ties, art, and patronage in the Renaissance? What opportunities did a wealthy woman have to participate in the intellectual life of the Renaissance? Explore the information given in “Biography” on Isabella D’Este.