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An Introduction to the 'Depicting Anna of Denmark' Blog

Welcome to Depicting Anna of Denmark. This distributed digital exhibition will catalogue all of Anna of Denmark’s portraiture, as far as possible in chronological order, from her early life to her death in 1619. Following the usual gallery or museum exhibition architecture, each new post represents a new, themed room filled with Anna’s beautiful portraits. We aim to publish new posts or rooms on a regular basis until the catalogue is completed in its entirety.   Have we missed anything? Want to contribute something? Let us know at depictingannaofdenmark@outlook.com !   Sitter Iconography; Or, What is the Purpose of this Blog?   A sitter iconography is a method of analysing the portraiture of a named sitter, with a view to illuminating its contemporary significances.   By arranging the known likenesses of Anna in more or less chronological order, we can bring to light new relationships between her likenesses in different media and facilitate new thinking about how such