# Portrait of a Couple, in Renaissance

An unrecorded Northern Italy, late 16th century artist painted this in about 1580–88. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> While the attribution remains hotly debated, this work exemplifies how Italian portraiture of the 1500s could articulate family alliances through marriage. The inscription gives the sitters’ ages as 35 and 28, and their elaborate jewelry, weapons, and garments, made of expensive materials, convey their elite status.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1580–88
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 132 x 173 x 10.5 cm (51 15/16 x 68 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 99.8 x 140.5 cm (39 5/16 x 55 5/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.793
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

Unrecorded Italian maker

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