A red-haired woman looks at the viewer suspiciously from a gilded frame. Her gaze is steely, direct and somewhat confrontational. The painting Portrait of a Woman (c. 1575) by Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni was a centerpiece of a 2019 exhibition of his work at the Frick Collection, Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture.
And now it will be the first painted portrait of a woman from the Italian Renaissance to be added to its permanent collection, the New York museum announced Friday.
