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MEMLING, Hans: Portrait of a Young Woman

🖼 Portrait of a Young Woman, 1480
Oil on oak panel
38 × 26.5 cm
Bruges, Belgium

Soft light models a serene face framed by elaborate headdress, rendered in luminous oils with meticulous detail. Memling's intimate portrait epitomizes Flemish precision and wealth, establishing the Northern Renaissance standard for psychological depth in portraiture.

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E. H. Gombrich
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