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Portrait of a Gentleman

Technical Details
  • Title
    Portrait of a Gentleman
  • Author
    Lorenzo Lotto
  • Year
    1543 - 5
  • Dimensions
    cm 115 x 98
  • Inventory
    692
  • Room
    XIX

This portrait’s kinship with other portraits that Lotto painted while in Treviso (for instance his equally austere, sober Gentleman with Gloves) has prompted scholars to date it c. 1545. But if the sitter is indeed Giovanni Taurini da Montepulciano, the viceregent of Ancona, then the date is more likely to be 1541, when Lotto returned to the Marche. The man is shown standing, a formula introduced by Titian for portraits of the aristocracy, but he also wears the introspective expression typical of Lotto’s work.

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