Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Portrait of a Young Betrothed or Husband
Alternate Title:
Ritratto di giovane fidanzato o sposo
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
attributed to Antonio da Crevalcore (Italian painter, active 1478, died before 1525)
Location:
repository: Museo Correr (Venice, Veneto, Italy) Cl. I n. 0053
Location Note:
Piazza San Marco 52
GPS:
45.4339 12.3375
Date:
ca. 1475 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
51 cm (height) x 37 cm (width)
Subjects:
portrait; profile portrait; marriage portrait
Description:
The museum label lists the work as tempera, the online catalog says oil painting. The profile view, which was favored in ancient coins, was frequently adopted in the fifteenth century. A portrait was often commissioned at a significant moment in someone’s life, such as betrothal, marriage, or elevation to an office. The man is portrayed against a green curtain partly open on a sea town. The presence of the prayer book on the windowsill with the ring and the pearl supports the idea of a marriage portrait and also that it was originally a diptych, with the betrothed woman portrayed in the missing panel. (Source: Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia [online collection database]; http://www.archiviod ellacomunicazione.it /)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-CREVA-MC-PG-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Portrait of a Young Betrothed or Husband