# Portrait of a Lady [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ZAGANELLI, Bernardino di Bosio]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on panel, 33 x 25 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Lady c. 1500 Oil on panel, 33 x 25 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna The brothers Francesco and Bernardino Zaganelli shared a workshop in Cotignola in Emilia Romagna. Their painting followed the traditions of the Ferrara school. Stylistically their work is difficult to distinguish; they worked so closely together that they formed the habit of jointly signing their paintings. The Portrait of a Lady, showing a young woman in an elegant dress with a fine hairnet, delicate circlet and a pearl necklace with a pendant jewel, is attributed to Bernardino. Instead of using a panoramic landscape as a background, customary both in the Low Countries and Italy, Zaganelli applied a neutral background <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/bellini/giovanni/1480-89/129portr.html'\)" HREF="/html/b/bellini/giovanni/1480-89/129portr.html">popularised by his contemporary,</A> Giovanni Bellini. ## Related artworks - [Christ on the Cross with St Jerome and an Augustinian Saint]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Alexandria]() - [The Holy Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()