Portrait of a Lady in Yellow (with frame)

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In the Quattrocento, painted portraits were usually placed in the "camere," the chambers that were the multipurpose rooms at the heart of household life. The portrait of a woman, attributed to Alesso Baldovinetti, retains its original gold frame, and the inventory of the Tornabuoni palace list that of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni as in a gilt frame.

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Portrait of a Lady in Yellow (with frame)

About the Artist

Alessio Baldovinetti

1425 – 1499

Florentine painter, mosaicist, and worker in stained glass. His training is unknown, but his graceful, and refined style shows the influence of Domenico Veneziano and Fra Angelico. His finest works include a damaged but still enchanting fresco of the Nativity (1460-62) in the forecourt of the SS. Annunziata, Florence, a Madonna and Child (c. 1460) in the Louvre, Paris, and an Annunciation (c. 1460) in the Uffizi, Florence. They show his remarkable sensitivity to light and landscape and his engaging blend of naivety and sophistication. In his History of Italian Renaissance Art (1970), Frederick Hartt writes that Baldovinetti was 'the finest painter in Florence ' in the 1460s, and considers him 'a very gifted master who somehow never quite seemed to fulfil his great initial promise'.

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