Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Ritratto di giovane con una lettera (Portrait of a Young Man holding a Letter) 1518 Oil on wood, 85.5 x 66.5 cm National Gallery, London A young man glances up at us from the letter he has just been…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) early 1520s Oil on panel, 88.7 x 67.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Monaco che tiene una croce (Monk holding a Cross) c.1445–1448 Tempera on panel. 69 x 44 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Almost nothing is known about the early years and training of Domenico Veneziano, an enigmatic artist of the…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Apostolo (An Apostle) c.1615–1619 Oil on canvas, 62 x 49.5 cm National Gallery, London This painting probably belonged to a series of Apostles. Although he was previously identified as Saint Judas Thaddaeus, usually portrayed with a club…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1558–1563 Oil on canvas, 63 x 50.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1528–1529 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is probably the “natural seeming and very beautiful” portrait of a canon from Pisa…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1517–1518 Oil on linen, 72.4 x 57.2 cm National Gallery, London We have interrupted a young man reading; he turns to look over his shoulder at us. The unguarded look…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di uomo (Portrait of a Man, Mercurio Bua) c.1535 Oil on canvas, 118 x 105 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The character, long believed to be a self-portrait of the artist, is depicted inside a closed environment, the…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) 1509–1510 Oil on panel, 28 x 22 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Santa Monica e due fanciulli oranti (Saint Monica and Two Praying Children) c.1430–1435 Tempera on panel, 79 x 35 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze