Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, Fra Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440

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Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440, Tempera on wood, 25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, Florence ca. 1406–1469 Spoleto), This is the earliest surviving double portrait in Italy, the first to show the sitters in a domestic setting, and the first with a view onto a landscape. The woman, dressed luxuriously ala francese, her sleeve embroidered with letters spelling 'faithful' (lealta), is observed by a man—her betrothed or lucky possessor?—appearing at a window, his hands on an identifying coat of arms

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