Keywords: Old Master, Florentine School, Quattrocento, 15th Century, Renaissance, Florence, Portraiture, Male Portrait, Profile Portrait, Humanism, Tempera, Parquet Panel

Summary:
Italian Renaisance Period Portrait of a young man, painted on a parquet panel. Likely painted around 1490, Florentine School very possibly the work of Domenico GHIRLANDAIO

Domenico Ghirlandaio lived when the Italian Renaissance was gathering speed and producing an astonishing succession of painters of genius. Ghirlandaio seems to have been a born portrait artist. He had little inclination for the avant-garde of the day or for the movements we associate with Botticelli (with whom he worked at the Sistine Chapel). It is probable that Michelangelo owed more to the sound craftsmanship of Ghirlandaio, to whom he was apprenticed, than he cared to acknowledge.

Measurement: Art: 18 x 13 1/2 in. (45.7 x 34.3 cm.), Frame: 22 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (57.8 x 47 cm.) approx

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