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UCCELLO, Paolo: Portrait of a Woman

🖼 Portrait of a Woman, 1440s
Tempera on wood
41 × 31 cm
New York, United States

Rendered in profile against austere background, the woman displays elegant Renaissance bearing with intricate headdress and delicate features captured through precise linear perspective. Uccello's geometric precision and cool palette exemplify Early Italian Renaissance portraiture's shift toward individualized representation and mathematical spatial harmony.

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E. H. Gombrich
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