Queen Isabella the Catholic dictating her Will Format:Enhanced Matte Print Herri met de Bles was

Herri met de Bles was a Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter

Bouguereau used to call him "La sagesse (the Wise)" or "Le sage Munier (The Wise Munier)

" The iconography

Repeated at the upper right are some of the landscape and architectural elements of which the Cordovan master was so fond: cypresses and arcades in a courtyard with a small roof and evocations of the buildings and architecture of his home town that he so often included in his paintings

easy and clear in the narrative cadences

Queen Isabella the Catholic dictating her Will Format:Enhanced Matte Print Herri met de Bles wasEduardo Rosales Gallinas depicts the moment when the Catholic Queen dictates her last will and testament at Medina del Campo on 12 October 1504, just days before she died. Isabel stands out in a royal chamber almost in darkness, in a canopy bed, with a medal of the Order of Saint James on her bosom. The white sheets contrast with the muted colors of the other personages. The only note of color is the red robe of a grieving King Fernando, whose