Raffaello sanzio, ritratti di agnolo doni e maddalena strozzi, 1504-06 ca. 07

The sitter is depicted from the chest up, wearing an intricately detailed gown and a prominent gold pendant set with a ruby, emerald, and sapphire, finished with a large teardrop pearl. She gazes slightly away from the viewer against a backdrop of a pale blue sky and a single, slender tree in a distant, minimalist landscape. The oil-on-panel surface exhibits a dense network of fine craquelure throughout.

This portrait reflects the early 16th-century Florentine ideal of beauty as a reflection of inner virtue, a concept central to the Neoplatonic revival. The jewelry, particularly the unicorn-topped pendant and the specific arrangement of gemstones, serves as an iconographic program signifying the sitter's chastity and moral purity according to contemporary lapidary traditions.