Portrait of a Lady

Key was able, as no other artist, to give Renaissance portraits a dignified radiance. Here, we are face to face with a distinguished lady, dressed in the Spanish fashion. She radiates a self-aware pride, is ostensibly inscrutable and commands respect, characteristics that are associated with the Renaissance individual of the mid-sixteenth century. Although we do not know the lady’s identity, we can deduce from her imposing demeanour and stylish clothes that she belonged to the wealthy burgher class.