POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Count Niccoló Soderini (1765) Oil on canvas (134 x 97 cm) Palazzo Barberini, Rome To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new tab" If Batoni needed to prove that, besides being a superb colourist, he was also a master in the difficult art of reproducing the texture of …
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Portrait of Gaspard Schoppius
PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640) Portrait of Gaspard Schoppius (c. 1604-05) Oil on canvas (116 x 88 cm) Palazzo Pitti, Florence To enlarge the picture, right-click on it, then "Open in a new tab" This portrait has only recently received acceptance as an early work by Rubens, and this attribution, together with the painting's resemblance to an …
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