3 October 2018

Hans Memling. Portrait of Tommaso di Folco Portinari and Maria Portinari, ca. 1470 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).



Oil on wood. Overall measurements: 44.1 x 67.7 cm. Painted surface with trompe-l’oeil frames: ca. 42.2 x 32 cm each. Husband and wife, dressed in the height of fashion. Originally a triptych with a central devotional image of the Virgin and Child (the centerpiece has been assumed lost). Interesting read at Metropolitan Technical Notes. Researchers chose to not further interpret the XRF Calcium distribution map.

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