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| View Original: | Giovanni di franco (attr.), ritratto femminile, 1445-50 ca..JPG (2058x2472) | |||
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| Keywords: Giovanni di franco (attr.), ritratto femminile, 1445-50 ca..JPG own Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art tempera wood cm 41 3 31 1 accession number 32 100 98 between 1445 1450 attributed to PD The attribution of this fascinating portrait has been much debated It is unusual both for the plainness of the sitter and the box-like character of the setting Was it intended to have funerary connotations establishing a commemorative function for the portrait or is the purpose of the emphatic perspective and the cast shadow to assert the illusionistic presence of the sitter The work thus poses fundamental questions about the uses of portraiture in fifteenth-century Florence PD-old-100 Giovanni di Francesco Women facing left in art Portraits with false frame Italian Renaissance paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1401-1450 paintings Photographs by User Sailko | ||||
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