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PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA: Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and His Wife Battista Sforza (reverse sides)

🖼 Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and His Wife Battista Sforza (reverse sides), 1473-75
Oil on wood (each)
47 × 33 cm
Florence, Italy

Delicate profiles emerge against luminous landscapes, rendered in tempera with geometric precision. These paired panels celebrate Renaissance patronage and dynastic power, while their reverses display triumphal processions—a revolutionary format combining portraiture with allegorical narrative.

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E. H. Gombrich
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