Italian 15th/16th Century

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Shown from the hips up, a nude woman stands between a table in front of her and a clothed man behind her, against a deep landscape in this vertical painting. The man rests one hand on her shoulder and holds up a mirror with the other. The woman’s pale skin has a pronounced golden glow. Her body faces us and she looks to our left, holding her waist-length, curly, strawberry-blond hair with her right hand by her face. Her hair on the other side is tied back with a sage-green band behind her ear. She wears a sheer white sash wrapped around her back and upper arms. A muted rose-pink, velvet sash loops over her left forearm, to our left. That hand rests on a round, squat glass bottle that sits on a leaf-green table, with her index finger covering the opening of the bottle. She wears a gold ring with a small dark stone on her left ring finger, and another gold ring rests on the table. The back corner of the table covers her genitals in the lower right corner of the painting. Behind her and to our left, a man with an olive-toned complexion and short curly brown hair, moustache, and long beard looks down his long nose at the woman as he rests his left hand, to our right, on her shoulder. He has dark eyebrows, flushed cheeks, and his pink lips are closed. He wears a cranberry-red coat embroidered along the edges with gold. White ruffles encircle his neck and the cuff we can see. Almost lost in shadow, the hilt of his sword peeks around his hip. With his right hand, to our left, he holds up a dark rectangular object in a wood-colored frame. The reflections of his fingertips in the glass indicate that this is a mirror, but the surface is otherwise black. A dense, forest-green tree grows in the landscape behind the woman. The view over the man’s shoulder, to our left, has sea-green hills beneath a watery blue sky with cream-white clouds.
Italian 15th/16th Century, Allegory of Love, c. 1520/1540, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.259

Allegory of Love

Italian 15th/16th Century · c. 1520/1540 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.259

Italian 15th/16th Century, Saint Sebastian, late15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.118

Saint Sebastian

Italian 15th/16th Century · late15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.118

Italian 15th/16th Century, Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), late 15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.131

Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.131

Italian 15th/16th Century, Monastic Saint with Cross and Book, late 15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.137

Monastic Saint with Cross and Book

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.137

Italian 15th/16th Century, Saint John the Baptist, late 15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.117

Saint John the Baptist

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.117

Italian 15th/16th Century, Saint Dorothy (?), late 15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.119

Saint Dorothy (?)

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.119

Italian 15th/16th Century, Possibly Saint Francis of Assisi, late 15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.113

Possibly Saint Francis of Assisi

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.113

Italian 15th/16th Century, Saint Albert of Trapani, late 15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.135

Saint Albert of Trapani

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.135

Italian 15th/16th Century, Madonna and Child, late 15th/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.112

Madonna and Child

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.112

Italian 15th/16th Century, Possibly Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, late 15th century/early 16th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.121

Possibly Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Italian 15th/16th Century · late 15th century/early 16th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.121