Lady of the Jasmin

Lorenzo di Credi, one of the most technically accomplished painters in late fifteenth-century Florence, created this Lady of the Jasmine around 1481. Trained alongside Leonardo da Vinci in Verrocchio's workshop, Lorenzo developed an exacting, highly finished style. His portraits and devotional paintings show extraordinary technical precision, though they lack the psychological depth of Leonardo's work. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting.

Oil on panel with Lorenzo di Credi's characteristically meticulous finish and smooth modeling. The sitter's features and the delicate jasmine are rendered with the precision that reflects his training under Verrocchio.