Rogier van der Weyden. Portrait of a Woman with a winged Bonnet (‘Bildnis einer jungen Frau’), ca. 1440 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on oak: 47 x 32 cm.

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Geertgen tot Sint Jans (attributed). The Glorification of the Virgin (‘De verheerlijking van Maria’), ca. 1495 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

Oil on wood: 24.5 x 20.5 cm(!). Originally part of a diptych with 'The Crucifixion of Christ' (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).

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Carlo Crivelli. Madonna and Child, ca. 1473 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Tempera and gold on wood: 36.5 x 23.5 cm(!). Crivelli hands.

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Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. Saint John the Baptist (‘Meditaciones de San Juan Bautista’/ ‘Heilige Johannes de doper’), ca. 1490 (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 48.5 x 40.5 cm. The odd plant next to Saint John was painted over a kneeling male figure. This man was probably a patron who was supposed to fund a private altarpiece with separate panels. A defaulter removed.

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Hugo van der Goes. Diptych with The Fall of Man (‘Diptychon mit Sündenfall’), ca. 1480 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on oak: 33.8 x 22.9 cm(!). Complete diptych: 41 x 61.5 cm. In the end things didn’t work out for Van der Goes. He had a mental breakdown and declared himself to be damned.

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Sandro Botticelli. Calumny of Apelles (‘La calunnia di Apelle’/ ‘Allegoria della calunnia’), ca. 1494 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

Tempera on wood: 62 x 91 cm.

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Jean Colombe. Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry - November ('Très riches heures du Duc de Berry - Novembre'), ca. 1485 (Musée Condé, Chantilly).

Manuscript illumination/ miniature on vellum: ca. 16.2 x 13.6 cm(!). Detail.

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Sandro Botticelli. Pallas and the Centaur (‘Pallade e il centauro’), ca. 1482 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

Tempera on canvas: 207 x 148 cm.

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Domenico Ghirlandaio. Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni (‘Retrato de Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni’), ca. 1490 (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).

Tempera/ mixed media on wood: 77 x 49 cm.

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Jean Fouquet. Virgin and Child surrounded by Angels (‘Madonna omringd door Serafijnen en Cherubijnen’), ca. 1450 (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).

Oil on wood: 94.5 x 85.5 cm. Melun Diptych.

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Swabian anonymous. Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family, ca. 1470 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on silver fir: 53.7 x 40.8 cm. A lady with a sense of humour.

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Antonello da Messina. Our Lady of the Annunciation (‘Virgin Annunciate’), 1475 (Galleria Interdisciplinare Regionale della Sicilia - Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo).

Oil on wood: 45 x 34.5 cm. Photo credit: Valéry Hugotte.

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Sandro Botticelli (attributed). Profile Portrait of a young Woman ('Profilbildnis einer jungen Frau'), ca. 1475 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Tempera on poplar: 55.4 x 43 cm. Previously thought to be Simonetta Vespucci. The Frankfurt portrait: here.

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Lorenzo di Credi. Portrait of a young Woman, ca. 1495 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on wood: 58.7 x 40 cm.

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Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus (‘Nascita di Venere’), ca. 1485 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

Tempera on canvas: 172.5 x 278.5 cm(!). The title was given to the painting in the 19th century. It is now believed that it doesn't represent the birth of Venus but her land on the island of Cyprus.

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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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Sandro Botticelli. Portrait of a Woman (‘Ritratto di donna - la bella Simonetta’), ca. 1485 (Gallerie degli Uffizi - Palazzo Pitti, Florence).

Tempera on wood: 61 x 40 cm.

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Robert Campin. A Woman, ca. 1435 (National Gallery, London).

Oil and egg tempera on oak: 40.6 x 28.1 cm. Unidentified sitter. Part of a double portrait ‘A Man and a Woman’, presumably husband and wife.

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Van Limbourg brothers. Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry - June ('Très riches heures du Duc de Berry - Juin'), ca. 1415 (Musée Condé, Chantilly).

Manuscript illumination/ miniature on vellum: ca. 22.5 x 13.6 cm(!). Detail.

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Petrus Christus. Portrait of a Young Woman (‘Bildnis einer jungen Frau’), ca. 1470 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on oak: 29 x 22.5 cm(!). The unexpected beauty of extensive craquelure.

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