Title

Profile of a Gypsy Woman, 1500-1525. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Profile of a Gypsy Woman, 1500-1525. This panel was originally installed along the upper wall of a room, perhaps a study or reception room, where it would have been joined by other panels identical in format and similar in subject in that they normally depict attractive young women and sometimes men in profile. This type of decoration was common in palaces in the north Italian region of Lombardy in the late 15th and early 16th century. Though the figures in these panels might initially look like portraits, they were often intended to be generic—simple representations of men and women from varying social classes and origins. This woman, with her loose hair, striped shirt and checkered bonnet, appears to be a gypsy. The inclusion of a figure from an outsider group is highly unusual and there is likely some story behind it.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B16_343

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,6Mb (2,5Mb) / 14,7in x 16,5in / 4411 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait Italy Italian woman women woman people head architecture painting country clothes museum headdress color profile stripe striped dress hair top Renaissance location century architectural long hair clothing garment Lombardy headscarf APPAREL one person head and shoulders headgear gypsies gypsy long haired head-dress Arched Colour 16th century sixteenth century 1500s gipsy tempera portrait Gipsies young women young woman Unknown Walters Art Museum 1510s Heritage Art clothing & dress fashion & clothing tempera on wood (spruce) panel