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JÚLIA TÁTRAI AND LÁSZLO LENGYEL: Archduke Albert († 1621) on the Catafalque: A Picture of Old-New Acquisition
bers. 22 Such members had the attire of the order, which they were allowed to wear, and they could be buried in the way depicted in the picture in question. In accordance with family tradition, the deeply religious archducal couple, who were devoted to their faith, continued to maintain close ties with the Franciscan Order. Adbert's last will and testament stipulated that he be laid out on his catafalque in a monk's habit 2 ', and Isabella —whose second name was Clara —exchanged her secular attire for the habit of the Clarissan nuns after her husband's death (fig. 4). She became a member of the Franciscan Third Order in October 1621, on Saint Francis Day, and in 1622 made her monastic vows. Ever since her childhood she too had nurtured close ties with the Franciscans. Infanta Joana of Portugal, the daughter of Emperor Charles V, rebuilt and expanded a Madrid palace for the Descalzas Reales Clarissan convent, founded in 1556. The religious life of the Spanish Habsburg royal family was mostly tied to this place: on holidays they attended masses in the church of the Descalzas convent, which also became their burial place. Archduke Mbert's mother, Maria, moved to Madrid from Vienna after the death of her husband Emperor Maximilian II in 1576. Some years later she joined the Franciscan Third Order and wore the order's habit until her death. Her daughter Margarita (sister Margarita) remained with her mother and took her vows in 1584 after rejecting Philip IPs proposal of marriage. 24 The habit which Isabella is wearing on her portraits after 1621 was given to her by one of her confessors, the governor of the German and Netherlandish provinces, Andreas de Soto. The widow, who continued to rule alone after Mbert's death, is wearing the attire of the Clarissans in every official portrait. The prototype for the portraits depicting Isabella as a member of the Third Order is a work by Rubens, which is now only known from copies and an engraving by Paulus Pontius. Three years later Van Dyck painted his full-length portrait of Isabella (Turin, Galleria Sabauda) based on this three-quarter-length depiction made in 162 5. 23 Isabella passed away in 1633. She was depicted in an engraving made by Pieter de Jode after Anthonis Sallaerts' drawing of her lying in state. The archduchess is dressed in the habit of the Clarissans, lying on a four-stepped catafalque with a baldachin. She is holding a crucifix in her right hand, and a sceptre, one of the royal insignia, in her left. The drawn-back curtain of the baldachin is twisted around the four columns supporting the structure. The baldachin ends in corner ornaments and the allegorical figure of Death, holding an arrow in one hand and a scythe turned downward in the other. 26 The archduchess was laid in state in a very similar way to her husband.
