Author: Aza Ali ||| Umid Ali ||| Ahmad

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Portrait of the Artist’s Wife Anna du Pire as Granida 

The artist portrayed his wife as the Persian Princess Granida and himself in the pendant painting as the shepherd Daiphilus (Daifilo). Those were the lovers in the popular pastoral play of the time, Granida (1605) by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. The lady in the painting is…