Portrait of a Man and a Woman  1440

This is the earliest surviving double portrait in Italy, the first to show the sitters in a domestic setting, and the first with a view onto a landscape. The woman, dressed luxuriously ala francese, her sleeve embroidered with letters spelling "lealta" (faithful), is observed by a man—her betrothed?—appearing at a window, his hands on an identifying coat of arms. The two f...