1508
oil
panel
From the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Portrait of a Girl is a 1508 oil by Sebastiano del Piombo, a High Renaissance work, depicting Catherine of Alexandria, held at Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
This painting shows a young girl with long brown hair, looking down to her right. She wears a white dress with gold trim and a green shawl over her left shoulder. Her right arm is bent, and her hand points to something outside the frame. The girl's expression is calm, and her eyes seem to be focused on something specific. The background of the painting is dark, which helps to highlight the girl's features and clothing. If you're interested in learning more about this style of painting, you might want to look into the technique of chiaroscuro.
Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian: ; c. 1485 – 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods, famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the…
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