This painting with its signature in gold letters provides us with a starting point for reconstructing Giovanni Agostino da Lodi’s career. We can detect the obvious influence of Bramante and of Bramantino in the two figures of differing age, posture and pyschological attitude. The dual portrait was a popular genre chiefly in Venice, where the painter is known to have been working in 1492. The inscription above appears to suggest that the sitters were master and pupil.
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TITLE
Dual Portrait
AUTHOR Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
DATE 1490 - 5
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on panel
DIMENSIONS cm 25.5 x 34.5
INVENTORY 2119
ROOM XI
FIRMA HOES AGOSTINUS/LAUDESIS P.
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AUTHOR Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
DATE 1490 - 5
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on panel
DIMENSIONS cm 25.5 x 34.5
INVENTORY 2119
ROOM XI
FIRMA HOES AGOSTINUS/LAUDESIS P.
Work on display