# Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BEMBO, Bonifazio]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on canvas, 49 x 31 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza c. 1460 Tempera on canvas, 49 x 31 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Bianca Maria was the natural daughter of Filippo Maria, last Visconti, Duke of Milan. She married Francesco Sforza in 1432. By means of an extremely delicate laying on of the tempera, Bembo has built up the face in diaphanously transparent layers that are perhaps a trifle cold. The masses achieve a quality of relief that is contained by the refinement of the colour and the elegance of the descriptive details. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of Francesco Sforza]() - [Portraits of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Sforza]() - [Triptych \(closed\)]() - [Triptych \(open\)]() - [Vaulting decoration]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()