Portrait of a Gentleman
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio
1500–1510
- Medium
- Oil, with tempera (?), on panel, transferred to canvas
- Dimensions
- 68.2 × 49.2 cm (26 11/16 × 19 3/8 in.); Framed: 94.7 × 77.5 × 8.3 cm (37 1/4 × 30 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingportraits: male subjectpaintChicago World's Fairs16th CenturycanvasCentury of Progressoil on panelplant materialItalySkyportraitblack (color)panel paintingoil paint (paint)painting (image making)hillspainting techniquesItalianbuildingwood (plant material)landscapesixteenth centurytree of lifeworld's fairsorganic materialportraitsoil paintingpanel (wood)european paintingtempera
About
The unknown sitter in this arresting portrait wears a furlined robe and capuccio, a hood rolled up and worn as a hat—both conventional apparel for well-to-do Florentine merchants. Ridolfo Ghirlandaio’s pyramidal presentation of the sitter and use of active, searching light reveal his study of portraits by Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. The son of renowned Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, Ridolfo successfully continued the family workshop well into the 16th century.
