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
Queen Elizabeth I
depictsAgeOfSitter middle-aged Elizabeth I
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
linked to: Tudor dynasty
portraysRole monarch of England
portraysTitle Queen of England
Queen of Ireland
symbolizes chastity
political virtue
virginity
wisdom
timePeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
usesMotif sieve

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Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I hasPart Sieve Portrait