Shown from the chest up against a black background, a man with peachy skin wears a gold and rose-pink cloak in this vertical portrait painting. With his shoulders pulled back, the man’s body is angled to our left, and he looks in that direction with gray eyes under pointed, furrowed eyebrows. There are wrinkles around his eyes and mouth, and he has a five o-clock shadow along the jowls lining his jaw. He has a rounded nose, and the corners of his thin, pale pink lips turn downward. The hint of closely cropped, dark hair is seen around his ear under his tall, brimless, cobalt-blue cap. His…
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Giovanni Emo

Attributed to painter Giovanni Bellini (Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516)

c. 1475/1480

Medium
oil on panel transferred to canvas mounted on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 46.9 x 32.6 cm (18 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.) ; overall size: 48.9 x 34.6 cm (19 1/4 x 13 5/8 in.) ; framed: 67.3 x 54 x 6.7 cm (26 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
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
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