Fra Filippo Lippi. Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440. Tempera on wood, 25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm).
Credit Line: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889.
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As the earliest surviving Italian double portrait in a domestic setting, this painting is doubly groundbreaking and innovative. The two figures have been plausibly identified as Lorenzo di Ranieri Scolari (1407–1478) and Angiola di Bernardo Sapiti, who were married in 1436. The painting is usually dated around 1440 and may have commemorated their wedding or the birth of a child. The careful attention to the woman’s dress and jewels, and the topographical depiction of the buildings and gardens in the background, seem almost to document the Scolari family possessions.
(6iysfnfから)
Emperor Leo VI’s (866-912) Votive Crown
‘things rachel wants to put on her head’ is going to go live soon
the excitement
Purgatory. hermit and Devil. Fr. 1327. 71 A 24. KB by tony harrison on Flickr.
(vaxhuvudenから)
Illuminated Initial ‘B’ (Beatissimo)
From Evangelia Ottonis
Late 10th century
Angel on a tomb under interlace-decorated canopy, from the Pericope of Henry II
(元記事： hazel-motes (acheiropoietosから))
A Seated Scribe
1479-80
Attributed to Gentile Bellini, Italian, 1429–1507
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
(acheiropoietosから)
