country of origin: Italy / depicts: woman

instance of: painting (123) | tondo (8) | reredos (3) | triptych (3) | polyptych (2) | panel painting (1) | sculpture (1) | altarpiece (1) | painting series (1) | fresco (1)

commissioned by: Philip II of Spain (1) | Francesco del Giocondo (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (3) | France (2) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (2) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (2) | Robert Lehman (2) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Francis I of France (1) | National Museum Poznań (1) | André Le Nôtre (1) | Federico Borromeo (1) | Archibald McLellan (1) | Bartolomeo della Nave (1) | Michael Friedsam (1)

movement: Italian Renaissance (10) | Early Renaissance (10) | High Renaissance (9) | Venetian school (8) | mannerism (5) | Baroque (1) | Gothic art (1) | Renaissance art (1) | Florentine School (1)

genre: religious art (77) | portrait (24) | nude (10) | self-portrait (9) | mythological painting (7) | allegory (3) | history painting (2) | genre art (2) | religious painting (2) | miniature (1) | public art (1) | erotic art (1) | group portrait (1) | donor portrait (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (4) | Madonna and Child (4) | Penitent Magdalene (3) | Book of Genesis (1) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Yusuf and Zulaikha (1) | Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Bernard of Clairvaux (1) | death of Cleopatra (1)

artist: Sofonisba Anguissola (20) | Luca Signorelli (15) | Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (9) | Masaccio (7) | Piero della Francesca (7) | Titian (7) | Raphael (5) | Girolamo Romanino (5) | Sano di Pietro (4) | Antonio da Correggio (3) | Francesco Albani (3) | Francesco Solimena (3) | Sandro Botticelli (2) | Pietro Perugino (2) | Jacopo Tintoretto (2) | anonymous (2) | Leonardo da Vinci (1) | Fra Angelico (1)

part of the series: Danaë (1)

material used: oil paint (74) | wood (40) | canvas (33) | tempera (25) | panel (12) | canvas (3) | copper (1) | gold (1) | paper (1) | ivory (1) | paint (1) | gold (1) | parchment (1) | poplar wood (1) | egg tempera (1) | walnut wood (1) | wax paint (1) | fresco (1)

collection: Museo del Prado (17) | Uffizi Gallery (12) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (9) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (8) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (4) | Pinacoteca di Brera (4) | National Gallery (4) | Birmingham Museum of Art (3) | Pinacoteca Nazionale (3) | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2) | Hermitage Museum (2) | National Gallery of Art (2) | Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte (2) | Berlin State Museums (2) | private collection (2) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (2) | Galleria Palatina (2) | Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (2)

location: Museo del Prado (17) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (8) | Uffizi Gallery (8) | Uffizi (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (4) | Pinacoteca di Brera (4) | National Gallery (4) | Birmingham Museum of Art (3) | Pinacoteca Nazionale (3) | Room 716 (3) | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2) | Hermitage Museum (2) | Alte Pinakothek (2) | National Gallery of Art (2) | Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte (2) | Galleria dell'Accademia (2) | Room 712 (2) | Perugia (1)

part of: Pisa Polyptych (3) | The History of the True Cross (1) | polyptych of Saint Augustine (1) | Collection of Self-Portraits in the Uffizi Gallery (1)

exhibition history: Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (1) | The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (1) | Mona Lisa Exhibition (1) | The Renaissance Portrait. From Donatello to Bellini (1) | Florentine Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum (1) | Art and Love in Renaissance Italy (1) | Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (20) | Sacra Conversazione (6) | crucifixion of Jesus (5) | Annunciation (5) | Holy Family (5) | Adoration of the Magi (3) | Penitent Magdalene (3) | birth of the Virgin Mary (3) | Nativity of Jesus (2) | Circumcision of Jesus (2) | Noli me tangere (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1) | Lisa del Giocondo (1) | Assumption of Mary (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1) | Coronation of the Virgin (1) | Death of the Virgin Mary (1)

location of final assembly: Florence (3) | Venice (2) | Madrid (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Florentine School/ (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (1) | oil painting (1) | chiaroscuro (1) | relief sculpture (1)