Jacopo da Sellaio. Florentine woman. c. 1500, Tempera on wood. An unnamed subject, no reference in description or landscape to Monteperso, thirty miles from the center of Florentine life. But somehow, Anna knew. This was the same model as the Madonna in the church. Not the strained Mary of the Pietà. The smug one awaiting God’s impregnation.
