Princess de Eboli (XVI century)
1:10 scale resin and white metal bust
Sculpted and painted by Ramon Arredondo

Available from ww.elviejodragon.com. Also shortly available from our store.

Some historical info:
Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Éboli
Spouse(s) Ruy Gómez de Silva
Noble family House of Mendoza
Born June 29, 1540(1540-06-29), Cifuentes, Guadalajara, Spain
Died February 2, 1592(1592-02-02) (aged 51), Pastrana, Guadalajara, Spain

Doña Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, Princess of Éboli and Duchess of Pastrana, (29 June 1540 – 2 February 1592) was a Spanish aristocrat, 2nd Princess of Mélito, 2nd Duchess of Francavilla and 3rd Countess of Aliano. She was considered one of Spain's greatest beauties, despite having lost an eye in a mock duel with a page when she was young.

More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_de_Mendoza,_Princess_of_Eboli

Great bust.

marc

Great choice of words.... and yes a wonderful bust

The bust is great but I have one question. I checked the wikipedia entry and there is a painting of the the princess where she has the eypatch on the right eye. The bust has the eyepatch on the left eye. Another painting on the net I 've found shows the patch on the right eye too. Now either the paintings wrong or the bust. I've read about a Tv miniseries here http://www.themakeupgallery.info/period/c16/spain/eboli.htm in which the left eye is covered by the eyepatch. Maybe they made the bust by the Tv series. Do someone know if the bust is historically right or not?

regards
Gabor

I don't know if it's historically correct or not, but who doesn't dig a chick with huge e-hems, and and eye patch? I'm just sayin'.

Jay H.

Does it matter? The 36Ds are probably not historically accurate.

I'm with you on that one Jay!!

Who's looking at the eye patch?

Keith

The eye patch does appear to have been reversed and judging from the portrait(s) on Google images, her face appears to have been fuller. It does look lke a fun bust to paint and for the most part her bits and piece (historically accurate or not) are covered.

Nice bust - yeah we've all noticed, would be interesting to find out if the eyepatch is correct, not a major point though.

Seems like it's definitely the right eye - movies work on artistic license I suppose.

Well, I can see two good reasons to buy this bust.

Yeah it sure looks like it was the right eye, not the left.

Matthew, it's also a shame the opportunity to offer an unusual historical subject like this was wasted - a straightforward accurate portrait of the lady in period dress would have been much more interesting all round IMO.

Einion

Agree with Tony.

Barrie.

for my taste they look all very the same,and the body proportions are more than overdone.those boobs have zeppelin size.
one should grind them down and rebuilt the front to an more normal level.then it could look quite nice...
cheers