PREP NOTES FOR LESSON 10 Share the information on this page with your child before starting the lesson. Look at the portraits found throughout this book and discuss if any of the following methods are used for the background: a mountainous landscape (pgs. 14, 27, 50, 59), a window (pgs. 23, 27, 36), or a solid area of color (pg. 11).
What sits behind the face of a Renaissance portrait? We often see the mountainous landscapes of Italy behind the face, as Raphael shows us in Portrait of Agnolo Doni (1). Artists and their patrons were fond of windows and curtains, which connected the landscape outdoors to the sitter inside the room, as Fra Filippo Lippi shows us in Womanwith aMan at aWindow (2). Occasionally the artist might choose a solid color so that the person and what they hold are the only objects in the painting. Leonardo da Vinci uses this device in The Lady with an Ermine (3). 1
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