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This is the only double portrait of its kind painted during the Renaissance period that is known and as related in the foregoing material, women were always pictured from a profile view with their hair severely pulled back away from their face and their gaze averted from the viewer since women were believed to be seductresses of men making them weak or otherwise castrating them with rejection though only casting a gaze in their direction.
The hands of the man are displayed in this portrait and he appears to be wearing some type of signet ring which identifies him as someone of prestige and wealth. The woman appears to be quite beautiful when compared with other Renaissance portraits of women and to have a glow to her skin that is lacking in other Renaissance portraits of women. The black edging of her head ornament outlines her face and contributes to the beauty of the woman being displayed and she does not appear so pale as to be inhuman as can be noted in the majority of Renaissance paintings of women.
Summary and Conclusion
The painting of Fra Fillipo Lippi 'Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement' is an interesting piece of artwork to analyze and while it is certain that this is a married couple and one who has both prestige and wealth, it is uncertain what the reason for the commissioning of this portrait was although conjecture can result in the assumption...
The portrait also is reminiscent of the Madonna as the woman in the portrait wears the colors worn by the Madonna in many portraits.
The portrait is clearly representative of the gulf that divided men and women in the Renaissance society with the man appearing on the outside looking in and the woman appearing on the inside looking straight ahead void of emotion or even of apparent thought. The portrait of Fra Fillipo Lippi is characteristic of Renaissance portraiture of women which always had women pictured in the profile so that they eyes would not be gazing upon the viewer and specifically averting their gaze from the male viewer.
Bibliography
Masters. RD (2013) the Portraiture of Women During the Italian Renaissance. The University of Southern Mississippi the Aquila Digital Community. Retrieved from: http://aquila.usm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1170&context=honors_theses
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440 -- 44 (2014) Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian,…
Bibliography
Masters. RD (2013) the Portraiture of Women During the Italian Renaissance. The University of Southern Mississippi the Aquila Digital Community. Retrieved from: http://aquila.usm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1170&context=honors_theses
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440 -- 44 (2014) Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, Florentine, (2014) Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved from: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/89.15.19
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