The head and chest of a clean-shaven, pale-skinned man is shown in profile facing our right, in front of a curtain opening onto a sliver of a distant landscape in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s eye we can see is hazel under a thin brow, and he has a straight nose over a closed, peach-colored mouth. A crease running from the side of his nose to the corner of his mouth is lightly shaded, and his cheek flushes light pink. His straight, auburn-brown hair is cut to angle from his brow down to his neck. He wears a tall scarlet-red cap and a brown and gold tunic pleated in vertical…
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Giovanni II Bentivoglio

Ercole de' Roberti (Ferrarese, c. 1455/1456 - 1496)

c. 1474/1477

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 54 × 38.1 cm (21 1/4 × 15 in.) ; framed: 83.82 × 66.68 × 12.7 cm (33 × 26 1/4 × 5 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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