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 somberly but stylishly dressed: her fair hair is drawn back under an elaborate sparkling net, she has several necklaces and she wears a olive green gown. It is tightly laced across her chest and slashed at the shoulder to show her stripe...