This square portrait shows the head and shoulders of a young woman in front of a spiky bush that fills much of the background except for a landscape view that extends into the deep distance to our right. The woman's body is angled to our right but her face turns to us. She has chalk-white, smooth skin with heavily lidded, light brown eyes, and her pale pink lips are closed. Pale blush highlights her cheeks, and she looks either at us or very slightly away from our eyes. Her brown hair is parted down the middle and pulled back, but tight, lively curls frame her face. Her hair turns gold where…
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Ginevra de' Benci [obverse]

painter Leonardo da Vinci (Florentine, 1452 - 1519)

c. 1474/1478

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (original panel only): 38.1 x 37 cm (15 x 14 9/16 in.) ; overall (thickness of original panel): 1.1 cm (7/16 in.) ; overall (with addition at bottom edge): 42.7 x 37 cm (16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.) ; overall (thickness of addition at…
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
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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