Renaissance Portraits
Faces from Florence, Nuremberg and the Tudor court, painted with close attention.
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About Renaissance Portraits
The Renaissance made the individual portrait a major subject. Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre set a new standard with its soft modelling and distant landscape. Raphael painted his friend Baldassare Castiglione in muted greys and blacks. Albrecht Dürer painted himself facing straight out in his "Self-Portrait" of 1500.
In London Hans Holbein the Younger painted "The Ambassadors" (1533), two French envoys with globes, books and a distorted skull.



































































































