Shown from the waist up, a young, pale-skinned woman faces our left in profile, filling the height of this vertical portrait painting. She is brightly lit from the left and set against an inky black background. A faint eyebrow arches over the green eye we can see, and her blush pink lips are closed. Her auburn-red hair is pulled back with a few loose strands brushing her pale cheek. A cluster of jewels, like a brooch, is affixed to a thin, black band that encircles her brow, over her ear. The brooch has an azure-blue jewel over a knot of four topaz-brown gems, all set in gold. Four pink…
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Bianca Maria Sforza

Ambrogio de Predis (Milanese, c. 1455 - after 1508)

probably 1493

Medium
oil on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 51 × 32.5 cm (20 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.) ; framed: 74.3 × 53.98 × 8.89 cm (29 1/4 × 21 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Milanese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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