Rogier van der Weyden - Portrait of a Lady

Much like Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring or Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa - so much of the beauty in today’s portrait is directly tied into it’s sense of enigma.

We do not know who this woman is, nor why the artist painted her.

But her striking beauty is beyond compare - and the realism of this work is even more unbelievable when we consid…