Early Renaissance portraits of women were painted mostly for weddings. Most of them seem to date from the first years of marriage, after which civic laws dictated that women should dress more decently and refrain from wearing jewelry.
Lippi's bridal portrait is the first preserved solo portrait in Florentine Renaissance. The painter’s treatment of the motif is highly unusual, since the husband Lorenzo Scolari is painted next to the bride Angiola Sapiti and as a reverse, a mirror image of her.
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 "Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement")
