Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis

This angel is a pair to another in the National Gallery’s collection. Both were part of a large altarpiece made for the church of San Francesco Grande in Milan that included Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’, which is also in our collection. They were made to surround a sculpture of the Virgin Mar...

A pale young woman is set against a dark background. She is dressed sombrely but stylishly: her fair hair is drawn back under an elaborate sparkling net. She has several necklaces and she wears an olive green gown which is tightly laced across her chest and slashed at the shoulder to show her str...