1520 "Woman Playing a Lute"
by Bartolommeo Veneto
(Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
1525 "Portrait of a Lady"
by Bernardino Luini
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
1518 "Portrait of Dona Isabel de Requesens"
by Raphaël
(Museum of the Louvre)
1536 "Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere"
by Titian
(Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
1535 "Portrait Of A Lady"
by Moretto da Brescia
(Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
1551 "Countess Livia da Porto Thiene"
by Paolo Caliari
(Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum)
1552-53 "Isotta Brembati" (detail)
by Giovanni Batista Moroni
(Bergamo, Moroni Collection)
1557 "Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola"
by Sofonisba Anguissola
(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
1560 "Portrait of a Woman"
by Francesco Beccaruzzi
(location unknown)
1560s "Family Portrait (detail)"
by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo
(San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum)
1560s "Portrait of Angelica Agliardi De Nicolinis"
by Giovanni Battista Moroni
(Chantilly, Musee Condé)
1560s "Paola Gualdo And Daughters"
by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo
(Dresden, Vicenza, Museo Civico)
1580 "Portrait of a Noblewoman"
by Lavinia Fontanai
pre 1567 "Portrait of a Lady"
by Domenico Riccio
(Vicenza, Pinacoteca Palazzo Thiene)
1581-84 "Portrait of a Lady in White"
by Domenico Robusti
(Private Collection)
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1550, Italian; marten head; enameled gold, rubies, garnets, pearls
(The Walters Art Museum)
Below are pictures of a few extant zibie heads, some period etchings of zibie heads and feet, and portraits featuring zibies (both decorated and plain). I have included a couple from countries other than Italy to show how widespread the fashion became. I hope to include more as I find them. (Please let me know if you know where some are!) For more information on zibellini, I highly recommend "Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2", which has an absolutely excellent article about zibellini by Tawny Sherrill.
For a zibie of your very own, click here!
1550s; Carved rock crystal marten head (zibellini)
Thyssen Collection, Zuric
1500s; Marten head with gold ears and glass eyes
London Museum and Gallery
1562; Two etching prints showing two muzzles & one fox paw each; by Erasmus Hornick (Flemish)
British Museum
1522s "Portrait of Lucina Bremabati"
by Lorenzo Lotto
1540s "Camilla Gonzaga with Her Three Sons"
by Parmigianino
(Museo del Prado Madrid, Spain)
1570-75 (English) "Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex"
artist unknown
1583 "Portrait of the Gozzadini Family"
by Lavinia Fontana
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna
1606 "Isabel de Valois"
by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz
Museo del Prado
