Renaissance portraits

1. The Renaissance Portrait
From Donatello to Bellini
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
through March 18, 2012

2. Federigo Gonzaga

3. Rembrandt

4. Masaccio
Lippi
Pisanello

5. Lorenzo de' Medici,
'il Magnifico' (1448-1492)
by Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli 
(1430–1514)
Francesco Sforza
(1401-1466)
by Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio
Pisano)  (1395–1455)

6. Leon Battista Alberti
by Matteo de' Pasti

7. Unnamed,
by Andrea del Castagno,
ca. 1450-1457

8. Another Medici
Giuliano de' Medici,
by Botticelli, 1478

9. Cardinal
Ludovico Trevisan,
by Andrea Mantegna

11. Piero di Cosimo de' Medici,
by Mino da Fiesole, ca. 1453-54

12. Filippo Strozzi, by Benedetto da Maiano, ca. 1475
Study in terra cotta Final in marble

13. Marietta di Lorenzo, by Desiderio da Settignano, ca. 1462

15. Unnamed women (or woman) by Botticelli

16. Birth of Venus by Botticelli

17. Note:
If Botticelli was painting Simonetta Vespucci,
as many believe,
he did so after her 1476 death.
Portrait 1: early mid-1480s
Portrait 2: mid-1480s
Birth of Venus: 1485
Botticelli lived from 1445-1510.
At his request, he was buried at the feet of
Simonetta Vespucci.

19. The End