Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci | Leonardo da Vinci | c. 1474-78 Frame Options:Gallery Canvas This artwork

This artwork

Aphrodite by Briton Rivière

The vast expanse of the landscape

and fantasy coexist beyond rational control

Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci | Leonardo da Vinci | c. 1474-78 Frame Options:Gallery Canvas This artworkAbout the artwork: The Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci by Leonardo da Vinci, painted around 14741478, is one of his earliest surviving portraits and marks a decisive shift in Renaissance portraiture toward psychological presence rather than mere likeness. The sitter, believed to be Ginevra de Benci, is shown with an unusual emotional restraint, her distant gaze and cool expression suggesting introspection rather than idealized beauty. Leonardos careful