She wears a balzo (a fashion invention of Isabella d'Este (prototypes before 1509[2]), but widely popular in northern Italy in the 1530s).

Her clothes are dark; she wears green patterned sleeves, a gold shirt and a fur (probably lynx).

"[6] The lost Francia original had already been painted 25 years earlier in absentia on the basis of oral descriptions and a third-party drawing.

[9] The academic exhibition review again opposed: "but why, when engaged on so professional a face-lift, did Titian use so coarse a canvas?

Nevertheless, the picture is uncritically circulated as the most famous portrait of Isabella d'Este, e.g. in books, probably because it is a Titian original (and the rest of the colour identifications are only copies).

Isabella d'Este was so famous as 'Prima donna del Mondo' and fashion icon that nobles asked to be allowed to copy her dress.

[16] Leandro Ozzola alternatively published La Bella (in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence) as Titian's portrait resp.