Shown from the shoulders up, a clean-shaven, pale-skinned man with shoulder-length brown hair and dressed in black fills this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our left, and his shoulders extend off both sides of the composition. He looks off to our left with brown eyes under thin brows. He has a long, slightly bumped nose and the hint of a five-o-clock shadow around his pale pink lips, which are closed. His brimless black cap nearly touches the top edge of the composition. His wavy hair is cut into bangs across his forehead and is feathered down each side of his face to meet…
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Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman

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

c. 1500

Medium
oil on panel transferred to panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 27.6 x 18 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.) ; overall: 29.69 x 20 cm (11 11/16 x 7 7/8 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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