Portrait of Ottavio Strada
Also titled Portret van Ottavio Strada
Jacopo Tintoretto (Venice, 1519–1594)
1567
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 128 cm x width 101 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Seventeen-year-old Ottavio Strada is portrayed in an unusual – allegorical – manner. He receives a cornucopia filled with ancient coins from Fortune, while turning away from a statue of Venus. The gold and silver signify not only his future riches, but also allude to his study of ancient coins, a pursuit in which he was trained by his father, the antiquary Jacopo Strada.
