Sieve Portrait

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The Sieve Portrait is a famous late-16th-century painting of Queen Elizabeth I that symbolizes her chastity and wisdom through the allegorical motif of a sieve.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf allegorical painting
painting
portrait
artForm oil painting
countryOfOrigin England
depictionOf Virgin Queen iconography
depicts Elizabeth I of England NERFINISHED
Queen Elizabeth I NERFINISHED
depictsAgeOfSitter middle-aged Elizabeth I NERFINISHED
depictsCostume Elizabethan court dress
depictsObject column
globe
sieve
depictsTheme female sovereignty
imperial ambition
monarchical virtue
genre allegorical portrait
portrait painting
hasAllegoricalMotif sieve
hasArtisticFunction dynastic propaganda
royal image-making
hasCulturalContext Tudor court culture
hasHistoricalContext late Tudor period
hasIconographicSource classical allegory of the Vestal Virgin Tuccia
hasInfluence later representations of Elizabeth I
hasMedium oil on canvas
oil on panel
hasStyle Renaissance style
hasSubjectGender female
inception late 16th century
languageOfWork none
mainSubject chastity
wisdom
movement Elizabethan art
partOf iconography of Elizabeth I
portraysAttribute female chastity
political wisdom
royal authority
portraysDynasty House of Tudor NERFINISHED
portraysRole monarch of England
portraysTitle Queen of England NERFINISHED
Queen of Ireland NERFINISHED
symbolizes chastity
political virtue
virginity
wisdom
timePeriod Elizabethan era NERFINISHED
usesMotif sieve

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Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I hasPart Sieve Portrait