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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Portrait of the Donor Nera Corsi Sassetti

🖼 Portrait of the Donor Nera Corsi Sassetti, 1483-85
Fresco
Florence, Italy

Soft light models the face of a wealthy Florentine matron, her jewels and elaborate headdress rendered with meticulous detail. Ghirlandaio captures merchant-class patronage in Renaissance Florence, immortalizing Nera's status and the donor's role in commissioning sacred art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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