Title: Portrait of a Woman

Artist: Bacchiacca

Portrait of a Woman with a Book of Music About 1540–45 Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini) Italian, 1494–1557 Oil on panel This woman's elegant dress was the height of fashion in Florence around 1540. The costume and music book indicate that she comes from a cultured, patrician family, perhaps the Frescobaldi, who once owned this painting. The ambiguous space, juxtaposition of dissonant colors, and polished sculptural treatment of flesh are characteristic of Bacchiacca's portraits.