Shown from the chest up against a dark, teal-blue background, a light-skinned woman looks off to our left left in this vertical portrait painting. Her arms extend slightly in front of her, as if they rest on her knee. Her face turns almost in profile to our left as she gazes in that direction with hooded light brown eyes under curved brows. She has a sloping nose, a pointed chin, and her thin, light pink lips are closed. A white covering over her hair, which has been pulled back and up, is layered under a translucent ivory-white veil that covers her forehead and the sides of her face. A…
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Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Attributed to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florentine, 1449 - 1494)

c. 1475

Medium
tempera and oil on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 53.3 × 39.9 cm (21 × 15 11/16 in.) ; framed: 73.98 × 60.33 × 10.16 cm (29 1/8 × 23 3/4 × 4 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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