One of the few sketches I'd managed to do on my trip to Europe this past summer, I'd been inspired by the wonders I had seen at the Uffizi Gallery in Firenze, as well as the Tuscan landscape rolling by the bus's windows. In particular, this is an homage to da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (particularly in the landscaped background - note that the horizon lines don't match?) as well as Piero della Francesca's portrait of Federico da Montefeltro ( http://www.mazzaforte.com/Urbino.html )