Portrait of Daniele Barbaro
Portrait of Daniele Barbaro | |
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Artist | Paolo Veronese |
Year | c. 1556–1567 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 121 cm × 105.5 cm (48 in × 41.5 in) |
Location | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
The Portrait of Daniele Barbaro (c. 1556–1567) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master
Barbaro, who was
The book standing up is the La Practica della Perspettiva, Barbaro's treatise on artistic perspective.[1] The other volume on the table is Barbaro's "Commentary" on Vitruvius' De architectura,[2] which has illustrations by Andrea Palladio. Barbaro's Commentary on Vitruvius was published in Italian in 1556, but the portrait may be linked to the publication of a second edition in Latin in the 1560s.
Related works
Two portraits reunited
Barbaro was also portrayed by Titian around 1545 in two versions in the Museo del Prado and the National Gallery of Canada. To commemorate the 500th anniversary of his birth, two portraits of Daniel Barbaro were brought together for a Venice exhibition in 2015, the painting by Titian from the Museo del Prado, and this painting from the Rijksmuseum.[3]
Portrait in the Pitti Palace
There is a portrait by Veronese in the
References
- ^ (in Italian) Il Rituale… article by Maurizio Nicosia
- ^ Rijksmuseum Accessed December 2008 (when this source referred to the painting being in London on loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
- Palazzo Ciniwebsite