Portrait of a lady with a book in her hand. interior with female figure, Bernardino Licinio, between 1500 and 1549

"the painting reaches the galleries but the date of acquisition is not known. The "portrait of a gentlewoman with a book" depicts a gentlewoman portrayed in three-quarters of the figure and holding a book in her right hand and has rightly been traced back to the catalog of the venetian bernardino licinio. It is, in fact, a typical work of the painter who, a follower of giorgione and influenced by palma il vecchio and cariani, devoted himself extensively to the flourishing activity of portrait painting; the references to other certain works such as the portrait of a gentlewoman from the accademia carrara in bergamo, depicted with the same richness of the loose robes, the same hairstyle of the blond hair parted on the forehead and gathered at the nape of the neck to form a sort of rays, it is probably a work of the painter's full maturity, executed towards the beginning of the fourth decade of the sixteenth century, when his ways became enriched chromatically" [1]. Date: between 1500 and 1549. Dimensions: height: 115 cm (45.2 in); width: 92 cm (36.2 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Gallerie dell'Accademia. Bernardino Licinio 033