Portrait of a Man

Titianabout 1508-1510

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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