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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Portrait of a Knight of Malta
CARAVAGGIO (1571-1610) Portrait of a Knight of Malta (c. 1608) Oil on canvas (118 x 95 cm) Palazzo Pitti, Florence To enlarge the picture, right-click on it, then "Open in a new tab" The Portrait of a Knight of Malta is one of the works that the Italian scholar Mina Gregori has convincingly identified as …
Portrait of a Young Knight
LUDOVICO CARDI (known as IL CIGOLI) 1559-1613 Portrait of a Young Knight (1594) Oil on canvas (78 x 62 cm) Palazzo Pitti, Florence The Florentine artist Ludovico Cardi, better known as Il Cigoli was a pupil of the late Mannerist painter Alessandro Allori (1535-1607) and of the architect Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608). He was born in …
Old Masters 