Portraits of Giuliano and Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo
Also titled Portretten van Giuliano en Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo
Piero di Cosimo (Florence, 1462–1522)
1482 - 1485
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 47.5 cm x width 33.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This exceptional diptych shows the leading Florentine architect Giuliano da Sangallo and his recently deceased father Francesco, who was an architect as well as a musician. These are among the earliest portraits to characterize their sitters by profession: a pen and compass allude to architecture, the sheet music to music. Both disciplines are based on notions of harmony and proportion.
