Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Letter
1518 painting by Rosso Fiorentino
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Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Letter is an oil-on-panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, executed in 1518, now in the National Gallery, London.[1] It is dated 22 June 1518 on the letter held by the unidentified young man in black hat and clothes.
In his Lives of the Artists Vasari briefly mentions that many portraits by Fiorentino could still be seen in Florentine homes, probably produced before Rosso left for Volterra in 1521 – this work is thought to be one of them.
References
- ^ "Catalogue page".
Bibliography (in Italian)
- Elisabetta Marchetti Letta, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Scala, Firenze 1994. ISBN 88-8117-028-0
- Antonio Natali, Rosso Fiorentino, Silvana Editore, Milano 2006. ISBN 88-366-0631-8
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Rosso Fiorentino
- Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1510)
- Assumption of the Virgin (1513–1514)
- Madonna and Child with Cherubs (c. 1512–1517)
- Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1517–1518)
- Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Letter (1518)
- Spedalingo Altarpiece (1518)
- Portrait of a Young Man in Black (c. 1520)
- Portrait of a Young Man with a Helmet (c. 1520)
- Cherub Playing a Lute (1521)
- Villamagna Altarpiece (1521)
- Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1521)
- The Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1521)
- Volterra Deposition (c. 1521)
- Dei Altarpiece (1522)
- Portrait of a Man (c. 1522)
- Portrait of a Man in Black (c. 1520–1522)
- Marriage of the Virgin (1523)
- Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters (c. 1523–1524)
- Death of Cleopatra (c. 1525)
- The Dead Christ with Angels (c. 1525–1526)
- Portrait of a Young Man Seated on a Carpet (c. 1525–1527)
- Sansepolcro Deposition (1528)
- The Risen Christ in Glory (1528–1530)
- Bacchus, Venus and Cupid (1531–1532)
- Pietà (c. 1537–1540)
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