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Portrait of a Man
Titianabout 1508-1510
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, United States
Details
- Title: Portrait of a Man
- Creator Lifespan: about 1488 - 1576
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Date Created: about 1508-1510
- Type: oil paintings
- Rights: Gift in memory of Booth Tarkington
- External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/5938
- Medium: oil on canvas
- wall label: This forceful image of an unknown man was painted during the first decade of the 16th century, at a time when Titian was the favorite portraitist of the Venetian nobility. The portrait conveys the vivid sense of presence so often observed by Titian's contemporaries. If the portrait produced by the perfection of art-which is so with you alone-approach the truth so closely that, with spirit added to them as well, Nature could reside there in vain. -Lodovico Dolce, 1538
- measurements: 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.
- Artist: Titian
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