# Portrait of a Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MAINARDI, Bastiano]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 45 x 34 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Woman c. 1500 Tempera on wood, 45 x 34 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin The sitter of the painting is the wife of a Florentine banker. The coiffure of the woman is characteristic for the period: a wig \(seuffia\) on top of the head decorated with curls of different colour. Although <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghirland/davide/couple.html'\)" href="html/g/ghirland/davide/couple.html">this portrait and its pendant</a> representing the husband 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. \*\*\* Keywords: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Author: MAINARDI, Bastiano Title: Portrait of a Woman Time-line: 1451-1500 School: Italian Form: painting Type: portrait ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin with the Gift of the Girdle]() - [Madonna with Child, the Young St John and Two Angels]() - [Tomb Monument to Fra Domenico Strambi]() - [Virgin Adoring the Child with Two Angels]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()