The portrait will be shown as part of From Botticelli to Titian between October 28, 2009 and February 14, 2010. It is on loan from the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow and will be insured for HUF 80 billion, or about four times the record auction price of USD 104 million for a painting (Pablo Picasso's Boy With Pipe, sold by Sotheby's, in 2004).
The teenage girl in the painting is likely Cecilia Gallerani, who was the mistress of Milan's ruler Lodovico Sforza il Moro, da Vinci's patron. It was probably painted in his early thirties, between 1482 and 1485, about 20 years before the Mona Lisa, and shows his sitter for the first time in a pose that would soon become the standard. Art historians say it is the world's first modern-age portrait ever painted, according to the Czartoryski Museum.
From Botticelli to Titian
will include more than 110 works of Italian Renaissance paintings, 30 from the Museum of Fine Arts' own collection and 80 on loan from Italian museums. Works will also come from the Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the National Gallery in London and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Source: Múlt-kor
