{"id":10024,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10024"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"da-vinci-s-portrait-of-ginevra-de-benci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/da-vinci-s-portrait-of-ginevra-de-benci\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci&#8217;s Portrait of Ginevra de&#8217;Benci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci\" alt=\"Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/leonardo-s-portrait-of-ginevra-de-benci-8695e49c0019.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of Ginevra de&#8217;Benci Leonardo da Vinci ca. 1474-78, Original panel only: 38.1 x 37 cm (15 x 14 9\/16 in.) National Gallery of Art , Washington , D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An early work by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10051\">Italian Renaissance<\/a> artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=6\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>, is a portrait of a young woman named Ginevra de\u2019Benci. The sixteen year old daughter of a Florentine banker, da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Portrait of Ginevra<\/em> was probably commissioned to commemorate her marriage. <br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonardo\u2019s use of the smoky <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#sfumato\">sfumato<\/a> technique is subtle in Ginevra&#8217;s portrait, and her image appears to be well-rounded and three-dimensional. Leonardo placed Ginevra in front of a dark juniper tree throwing her figure into strong relief. The lower part of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s painting has been removed, so perhaps what was lost balanced the dark cloud of the juniper tree above her head. This portrait of Ginevra de&#8217;Benci by Leonardo da Vinci is the only one in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early work by Italian Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci, is a portrait of a young woman named Ginevra de\u2019Benci. The sixteen year old daughter of a Florentine banker, da Vinci&#8217;s Portrait of Ginevra was probably commissioned to commemorate her marriage. Leonardo\u2019s use of the smoky sfumato technique is subtle in Ginevra&#8217;s portrait, and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10258,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}