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The costume of the unidentified sitter can be dated to the early 17th century. This picture has in the past been attributed to Annibale Carracci & to the Flemish School. It is currently considered Italian, & possibly Bolognese. The reverse is inscribe ...

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This portrait is painted in fresco using mineral pigments suspended in water on wet plaster. The technique gives results of great freshness & immediacy. It has been suggested that this picture may be Florentine. There seems once to have been a female por ...

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One of an edition of casts made from the high relief bronze bust of Mantegna & its circular porphyry background which serves as the artist's memorial in his funeral chapel in S. Andrea, Mantua. The memorial was probably designed, the bust was perhaps mode ...

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Chiselled on the reverse: LEONARDUS RINALDIUS/ A. VICTORIA. F/ MDXXXXVI. Although his name is chiselled on the reverse, the bust is not in the style of Alessandro Vittoria (1525-1608), the leading sculptor working in Venice in the second half of the sixte ...

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Presumed to be identical with the bust of Wynn Ellis exhibited by Sievier at the Royal Academy in 1843 (as no. 1438). Wynn Ellis was a notable benefactor of the Gallery. Sievier (1794-1865) turned to sculpture in the early 1820s after training as an engra ...

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Ariadne was abandoned on the island of Naxos by Theseus & was discovered there by the god Bacchus, who fell in love with her. (Ovid, ' Metamorphoses', 8). The composition is based on a painting by Carpioni (died 1674). Different suggestions for the date h ...

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Bust Portrait Of A Man

The sitter has not been identified. The portrait has been dated to the years 1545-50 on stylistic grounds.

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Supplier: National Gallery
SKU: NG2611

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