Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio

National Gallery of Art

Shown from the chest up against a dark, teal-blue background, a light-skinned woman looks off to our left left in this vertical portrait painting. Her arms extend slightly in front of her, as if they rest on her knee. Her face turns almost in profile to our left as she gazes in that direction with hooded light brown eyes under curved brows. She has a sloping nose, a pointed chin, and her thin, light pink lips are closed. A white covering over her hair, which has been pulled back and up, is layered under a translucent ivory-white veil that covers her forehead and the sides of her face. A charcoal-gray stripe on the veil creates a line from her cheek to the back of her head. Her dress has a black bodice and sleeves, and the chest and the tops of her shoulders are covered with another veil. A patch of burgundy red shows through where the dress is laced up over the chest.