This album begins with the first recorded image of a farthingale, in 1470-1480, and extends up to 1550. The renaissance was not the first high post-Roman civilization. There was a high middle ages, the time of the Canterbury Tales, when civilization flourished. It was a very faith-centered civilization dominated by the Roman Catholic church. This era came to an end not by war, but by fleas with the plague of 1348-1350. The solidity of the old order ended and new ideas were able to take root, particularly in southern Europe where refugees from the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, that literally collapsed under canon fire, infused new learning into Europe.

ca. 1500 copy of 1445-1450 Isabella of Portugal by Rogier van der Weyden studio (Getty Museum - Los Angeles, California USA)

ca. 1481-1483 Caterina Sforza by Lorenzo de Credi (Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì - Forli, Forlì-Cesena Italy)

ca. 1500 Lucrezia Borgia portraying Beatrice d'Este by Bartolomeo Veneto (Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame - South Bend, Indiana USA)

ca. 1537 Princess Jadwiga Jagiellonka of Poland, Margravine of Brandenburg Kurfürstin Jadiwa Jagiello by Hans Krell (Jagdschloss Grunewald - Berlin, Germany)

1500-1510 Anne d'Alencon Marquise de Montferrat (1492-1562) daughter of Rene Duc d'Alencon from the House of Valois-Alencon and Marguerite de Vaudemont by Macrino d'Alba (Santuario dell’Assunta - Guardia Sanframondi, Campania Italy)

1504-1505 Elisabetta Gonzaga attributed to Raffaello Sanzio ("Raphael") (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze Italy)

1515 (on or before) Sibylla von Freyberg, née Gossenbrot wearing Order of the Swan by Bernhard Strigel (Alte Pinakothek - München, Bayern, Germany)

Possibly Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, mother of Catherine de Medici by ? (location unknown to gogm)

1523 Camilla Gonzaga, condesa de San Segundo y sus hijos by Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known throughout his artistic career as Parmigianino (Museo Nacional del Prado - Madrid Spain)

ca. 1523 Laura de Dianti by Tiziano Vecelli (Titian) (Hausmuseum Kloster Kreuzlingen - Kreuzlingen, Thurgau Switzerland)

Probably Elizabeth Howard, Lady Ratclif, maternal aunt of Anne Boleyn and paternal aunt of Katheryn Howard by Hans Holbein (Royal collection)

1525 Markgräfin Elisabeth von Baden by Hans Wertinger (Museum Veste Coburg - Coburg, Bayern, Germany)

ca. 1525 Madame de Canaples (Marie d'Assigny, 1502 - 58) by Jean Clouet (National Galleries of Scotland - Edinburgh, Scotland)

ca. 1525 Woman, also called Magdalena von Sachsen by Lucas Cranach the Elder (National Gallery - London, UK)

ca. 1529 Magdalene von Sachsen, Princess-Electress of Brandenburg by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois, USA)

ca. 1527 Cecily Heron, daughter of Sir Thomas Moore, by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection, Windsor Castle - Windsor, Berkshire, UK)

Margaret Giggs, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas Moore, by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection, Windsor Castle - Windsor, Berkshire, UK)

Mary Brandon, Lady Monteagle, daughter of Charles Brandon, step-daughter of Mary Tudor by Hans Holbein the Younger

Eleanor Brandon, daughter of Princess Mary Tudor, Maternal Aunt of Jane Grey by ? (location unknown to gogm)

1528 Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa, 1497-1537. Sister of Gustav (Vasa) I attributed to Mäster Hillebrandt (copy of original in Nationalmuseum - Stockhom, Sweden)

1529-1530 Susanna of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by Peter Gertner (Schlossmuseum Berchtesgaden - Berchtesgaden, Bayern, Germany)

1530 Young woman, possibly Countess Gozzadini by Girolamo Parmigianino (Kunsthistorisches Museum - Wien, Austria)

1533 Susanna of Bavaria by Barthel Beham (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - München, Bayern, Germany - specific location unknown to gogm)

1531 Presumed portrait of Margherita Paleologo, Duchess of Mantua by Giulio Romano (Royal Collection)

ca. 1532-1535 Lady Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset by follower of Hans Holbein the Younger (Weiss Gallery)

Marchioness of Dorset (1487–1541) after Hans Holbein the Younger (Anglesey Abbey - Lode, Cambridgeshire, UK)

1534 Christiana Eulenau by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Staatsgalerie in der Neuen Residenz Bamberg - Bamberg, Bayern, Germany)

ca. 1534-1536 Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk and 4th wife of Charles Brandon, by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection)

1543 (before) Catherine Bertie (née Willoughby) by Hans Holbein the Younger (location unknown to gogm)

ca. 1533-1536 Lady, said to be Anne Stuart, Maréchale d’Aubigny by Claude Corneille de Lyon (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery - Bristol, Bristol County, UK)

ca. 1535 Unknown woman, known as Margaret Pole by ? retouched (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK)

ca. 1535 Frances, Countess of Surrey by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection, Windsor Castle - Windsor, Berkshire, UK)

1537 (after) Barbara Jagiellon by workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (Gemäldegalerie - Berlin, Germany)

ca. 1539 Laudomia de' Medici as bride of second husband Pietro Strozzi with son from her first marriage with Alamanno Salviati by ? (location unknown to gogm)

1550-1555 Laudomia di Pierfrancesco de' Medici by Alessandro Allori (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze Italy)

1540-1560 Young woman in the style of Holbein (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York, USA)

ca. 1612 Lady Elizabeth Pope, née Blount (c.1515–1593) by ? (Trinity College, University of Oxford - Oxford, Oxfordshire UK)

1540 Florentine noblewoman possibly by Agnolo di Cosimo ("Bronzino") (San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego California)

1540 (after) Elizabeth, Lady Hoby, close friend of Queen Katherine Parr by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection, Windsor Castle - Windsor, Berkshire, UK)

1542 (after) Elisabeth of Austria (1526-1545), Queen of Poland by Monogrammist PF (Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Nuremberg Germany)

Elisabeth of Austria (1526 – 1545), Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by ? (location ?)

1545-1547 Giulia Varano Duchess of Urbino by Tiziano Vecellio (Palazzo Pitti - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)

1547 Isabella Guerrieri Gonzaga Canossa by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Musée du Louvre - Paris France)

Possibly Catherine Grey, sister of Jane Grey, granddaughter of Mary Tudor or possibly Elizabeth I as a princess by Leevina Teerlinc
