Shown from the chest up, a man with pale, yellow-tinged skin is angled to our right with downcast eyes in this vertical portrait painting. He is cleanshaven with chin-length black hair. There is a deep vertical crease in the center of his forehead between dark brows. His eyes are hazel brown, and he has a long, hooked nose over slightly parted, pale pink lips. He wears a high-necked, red tunic with deep pleats down his chest. The arm closer to us has a fawn-brown sleeve. He is shown behind a narrow ledge where a brown, dove-sized bird with an ivory-white belly sits on a twig in the lower…
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Giuliano de' Medici

painter Sandro Botticelli (Florentine, 1446 - 1510)

c. 1478/1480

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.5 x 52.5 cm (29 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.) ; framed: 105.7 x 81.3 x 11.3 cm (41 5/8 x 32 x 4 7/16 in.)
Culture
Florentine
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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