Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Pietro Aretino (Portrait of Pietro Aretino) 1545 Oil on canvas, 96.7 × 77.6 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze See also: • Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556)
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Isabella Brant 1621 Oil on canvas, 153 x 120 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Isabella Brant was the first wife of the Antwerp master Peter Paul Rubens, whom she married shortly after his return from Italy…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Ritratto di Maria Salviati con Giulia de’ Medici (Portrait of Maria Salviati de’ Medici and Giulia de’ Medici) c.1539 Oil on panel, 88 x 71.3 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Medici, Giulia de’ (c.1535-c.1588) | Salviati, Maria…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Ritratto di Cosimo il Vecchio (Portrait of Cosimo the Elder) 1519–1520 Oil on panel, 87 x 67 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Cosimo il Vecchio (1389-1464)
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) Cavaliere di San Giovanni (A Knight of Saint John) c.1523–1524 Oil on poplar, 96.8 x 76.2 cm National Gallery, London The unknown man in this half-length portrait proudly displays an eight-pointed silver cross suspended from a black cord round…