Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal
Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal|
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| Artist |
Hans Memling |
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| Year |
c. 1480 |
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| Type |
Oil on panel |
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| Dimensions |
31 cm × 23.2 cm (12 in × 9.1 in) |
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| Location |
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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The Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal is a painting by the German-born Flemish artist Hans Memling, dating to c. 1480 and housed in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
Description
The painting portrays a man from a three-quarter point of view, with an attention to details typical of Flemish painting. The man is wearing a black coat and a hat of the same color. In the left hand, he is showing a Roman medal of emperor Nero, a symbol of his attention to Humanism. In the background is a lake landscape: Memling was one of the first painters to use natural landscapes for backgrounds of portraits (instead of the traditional black one), influencing later Renaissance artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Pietro Perugino.
The identity of the subject is unknown. It has been supposed that he could be one of the numerous Italians living at the time in Antwerp or Bruges, who often commissioned artworks to local painters. It has been variously identified as Bernardo Bembo, or with the Florentine artist Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli, who died in Lyon, where the painting was in the early 19th century. Or it may be Giovanni di Candida.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Norbert Schneider. The Art of the Portrait: Masterpieces of European Portrait-painting, 1420—1670. Taschen 2002. P. 44
Sources
- Zuffi, Stefano (2004). Il Quattrocento. Milan: Electa. ISBN 88-370-2315-4.
External links
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| | Single panel religious |
- Virgin and Child Enthroned with two Musical Angels, c. 1467
- Scenes from the Passion of Christ, c 1470
- Adoration of the Magi, c. 1471
- Mater Dolorosa, c 1475
- Allegory with a Virgin, c. 1479–1480
- Advent and Triumph of Christ, c. 1480
- Mater Dolorosa, c 1480
- Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, c. 1480
- Angel Musicians, 1480s
- Annunciation, c. 1482
- Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels, c. 1480s
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| | History paintings | |
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| | Polyptychs | |
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| | Portraits |
- Portrait of a Man, c. 1470–1472
- Portrait of Tommaso Portinari, c. 1470–1472
- Portrait of Maria Portinari, c. 1470–1472
- Portrait of an Elderly Man, c 1470-75
- Portrait of an Elderly Woman, c 1470-75
- Portrait of a Man with a Pink Carnation, 1475
- Portrait of Benedetto Portinari, 1478
- Portrait of Willem Morell, c. 1480
- Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal, c. 1480
- Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh, c. 1480
- Sibylla Sambetha, c 1480
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