Why it matters
Lucrezia Panciatichi, wife of the Florentine humanist Bartolomeo Panciatichi, wears a golden necklace inscribed 'Amour dure sans fin': love endures without end. Vasari called the pair of portraits 'so natural that they seem truly living'.
Did you know?
- It was finished around 1545.
- It is a pendant to her husband's portrait.
- Henry James describes it in The Wings of the Dove.
Based on the Wikipedia article Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (CC BY-SA 4.0).
