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Double Portrait (Pair of Lovers)

1480-85
Oil on linden panel, 114 x 80 cm
Schlossmuseum, Gotha

The Gotha Double Portrait is perhaps the most well-known of fifteenth-century love-and-betrothal paintings. It bears an inscription referring to the relationship of the man and the woman depicted.