"Portrait of a young Queen"
Simone Pignoni (Florence 1611-1698) Intense portrait in profile depicting a young and beautiful crowned Queen. The handsome, very sensual and prosperous young woman shows off her breasts in a provocative pose. The particularly intense gaze turned upwards and the open book in his hands convey to the spectator an unusual emotion that is confused between the sacred and the profane. The painting is a seventeenth-century work by the famous Florentine painter Simone Pignoni as confirmed by expertise written by Prof. Ferdinando Arisi. Pignoni specialized in the production of fervent religious portraits, especially female ones, depicting diaphanous figures prevalently