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Giuliano & Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522)
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
In these pendant portraits, the Florentine architect Giuliano da Sangallo is portrayed with his recently deceased father Francesco, who was a musician as well as an architect. These two panels are among the earliest examples of portraits in which the sitter’s vocation is central. The quill and compass denote architecture, the sheet of notes refers to music: both arts are based on harmony and proportion.
