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Title:
Portrait of a Woman
Creator:
Ghirlandaio, Domenico, painter
Description:
A young woman sits in three-quarter profile in a broad landscape. She rests a hand on a surface before her that is covered with an eastern-style carpet, and she holds an orange blossom--a flower typically worn by brides. Scholars believe the sitter to be Giovanna Albizzi, wife of Lorenzo Tornabuoni. This painting likely was a marriage or engagement portrait. A woman would sit for a portrait for two events in her life: to mark her engagement or to commemorate her wedding.
Source:
WikiMedia Commons
Rights:
Public domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Flowers
Nuptial Imagery
Portraits
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
15
Date:
ca. 1485
Related Work:
Current Location:
Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.938
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Paintings
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Panel paintings; Tempera; Oil
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm):
56.1cm/37.7cm/
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