Roxelana

Title

Roxelana

Creator

Anonymous artist

Publisher

Matteo Pagani

Date

1540–50

Contributor

Nicole Hudler

Rights

London: British Museum

Format

work on paper

Language

Below the portrait within the oval:

La piu bella e piu favorita donna del gran turco ditta La Rossa

At the base of the print, between the grotesque masks:

In Venetia per Mathio Pagan in Fre zaria tien per insegna la Fede

Type

still image

Original Format

woodcut

Files

AN00139521_001_l.jpg

Citation

Anonymous artist, “Roxelana,” Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Modern Italian Art, accessed February 21, 2025, http://othersinearlymodernitaly.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/378.

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