# Portrait of a Young Man, Portrait of a Young Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHIRLANDAIO, Davide]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 45 x 34 cm \(each panel\) ## Commentary Portrait of a Young Man, Portrait of a Young Woman c. 1500 Tempera on wood, 45 x 34 cm \(each panel\) Staatliche Museen, Berlin Although these portraits are catalogued in the Berlin museum under the name of Bastiano Mainardi, Domenico Ghirlandaio's follower and posthumous brother-in-law, recent research attributes them to Davide Ghirlandaio. No portraits of married Italian couples survive as a diptych that can be opened and closed in the manner of a book. Yet it is likely that these pairs of panels initially were joined to one another by attached hinges. Most of the surviving portraits of married couples depict courtly rulers, such as <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/roberti/bentiv\_1.html'\)" href="/html/r/roberti/bentiv\_1.html">Ercole de' Roberti's portraits</a> of the overlord of Bologna, and his wife, or <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/piero/4/montefe1.html'\)" href="/html/p/piero/4/montefe1.html">Piero della Francesca's celebrated portraits</a> of Federigo da Montefeltro and his wife. These are strict profile portraits facing one another. Ghirlandaio's husband and wife are not rulers but high ranking members of Florentine society. These portraits show the husband in three-quarter view in front of a landscape with a city, but the wife in profile, cut off in a loggia and housebound. ## Related artworks - [Aristotle and Diogenes]() - [Bust Portraits of Two Boys \(recto\)]() - [Christ Supported by the Virgin, Sts John the Evangelist and Joseph of Arimathea]() - [Portrait of a Young Man]() - [Portrait of Selvaggia Sassetti]() - [St Jerome]() - [Virgin and Child Enthroned between St Ursula and St Catherine]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Virgin and Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()