Disambiguation evidence for Ginevra de’ Benci by Leonardo da Vinci via surface form

"Ginevra de’ Benci"


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Predicate Object
artForm panel painting
artHistoricalPeriod Renaissance
surface form: Italian Renaissance
artHistoricalSchool Florentine school
artTechnique oil painting
artTechnique subtle sfumato modeling
artworkSurface rectangular panel
city Washington, D.C.
collection National Gallery of Art
surface form: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
commissionedIn Florence
country United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Leonardo da Vinci
culturalSignificance important work in the development of Renaissance portrait painting
culturalSignificance masterpiece of early Leonardo portraiture
currentStatus extant
dateOfCreation 1470s
depicts Ginevra de’ Benci by Leonardo da Vinci self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ginevra de’ Benci (Florentine noblewoman)
features juniper bush behind sitter
features landscape background
features three-quarter view portrait
genre portrait
hasInscription “VIRTUTEM FORMA DECORAT”
hasPart painted reverse side with emblem and motto
hasStyle chiaroscuro modeling
hasStyle naturalistic
height 38.8 cm
inception c. 1474–1478
inscriptionTranslation “Beauty adorns virtue”
instanceOf Renaissance painting
instanceOf painting
instanceOf portrait painting
languageOfInscription Latin
location National Gallery of Art
medium oil on panel
movement Renaissance
surface form: Early Renaissance
museum National Gallery of Art
surface form: National Gallery of Art (West Building)
notableFor early example of psychological characterization in portraiture
notableFor innovative integration of sitter and landscape
notableFor one of Leonardo da Vinci’s earliest surviving paintings
orientation vertical
originalLocation Florence
reverseDepicts wreath of laurel, palm, and juniper
reverseInscription “VIRTUTEM FORMA DECORAT” on cartellino
subjectGender female
support wood panel
symbolism juniper (allusion to Ginevra’s name)
symbolism laurel and palm on reverse (virtue and poetic talent)
width 36.7 cm