This page provides examples of beaded necklaces. It focuses on necklaces with beads other than just pearls, since it seems like there are so many portraits of women wearing strands of pearls; this is more intended to provide interesting medieval and Renaissance necklaces as inspiration for re-creations.
- Portrait of a woman by the Master of the Castello Nativity, c. 1450s
- Women in beaded necklaces in Renaud de Montauban, c. 1468-1470:
fols. 28r,
71v, and 76r
of BNF Arsenal 5072;
fols. 88v,
107v,
117v,
148r,
195v, and
218r
of BNF Arsenal 5073
- Portrait of a young woman by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 2nd half of the 15th century
- Portrait of a woman by Bastiano Mainardi, 2nd half of the 15th century
- Portrait of a lady by Alesso Baldovinetti, c. 1465
- Portrait of a girl by Piero del Pollaiolo, c. 1467-1470
- Portrait of a young woman by Petrus Christus, c. 1470
- Portrait of a lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1470-1480
- Portrait of Selvaggia Sassetti by Davide Ghirlandaio, c. 1487-1488
- The daughters from Giovanni il Bentivoglio and his family by Lorenzo Costa the Elder, 1488
- Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (the Lady with the Ermine) by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490
- Portrait of Mary of Burgundy by Michael Pacher, c. 1490 (also portrait of Mary of Burgundy, 1528)
- La Belle Ferronière by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490
- Portrait of a girl, c. 1490
- Drawing of a young woman wearing a double necklace
- Portrait of a young woman by Bastiano Mainardi or Domenico Ghirlandaio
- Portrait of a lady as St. Lucy by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, c. 1500
- Portrait of a lady with a lap dog by Lorenzo Costa the Elder, c. 1500
- Portrait of a lady by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
- Portrait of a woman by Lorenzo Costa the Edler, c. 1500
- Portrait of a young lady by Bartolomeo Veneto, c. 1500-1510
- Portrait of a young Venetian woman by Albrecht Dürer, 1505
- Portrait of Agniete van den Rijne by Joos van Cleve
- Portrait of a lady in profile by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
- Detail from the preaching of St. John the Baptist by Francesco Bacchiacca, c. 1520
- A lady with a nosegay by Francesco Bacchiacca, c. 1525
- Portrait of a woman and a child by Francesco Bacchiacca, c. 1525-1535
- Beaded bracelet and beaded necklace in a portrait of a young lady holding a cat by Francesco Bacchiacca
- Head of a lady by Giampietrino
- Portrait of a lady with her daughter by Barthel Bruyn the Elder, c. 1535-1545
- Portrait of a lady, c. 1535-1550
- Portrait of the artist's sisters playing chess by Sofonisba Anguissola, 1555
- Interesting beaded bracelets on a La Dama in Rosso by Giovanni Battista Moroni, c. 1556-1560
- Beaded necklace and coordinating bracelets on the artist's sister Minerva Anguissola by Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1564
- Portrait of Jeanne d'Albret by François Clouet, 1570
- Portrait of Gabrielle de Rochechouart by Corneille de Lyon, c. 1574
- Self-portrait at the spinet by Lavinia Fontana, 1577
- Portrait of a lady by Peter de Kempeneer
- Portrait of a young woman, c. 1585-1589
- A young boy by Jacob Willemsz Delff I, 1581
- Portrait of a girl by Lavinia Fontana, c. 1580-1583
- The fruit-seller by Vincenzo Campi, 1580s
- Portrait of Elizabeth Brydges, aged 14 by Hieronimo Custodis, 1589
- Family portrait by Lavinia Fontana, c. 1598-1600
- Portrait of a lady in a black robe by François Quesnel
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