Titian - Portrait of a Man Holding a Book 1540
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Portrait of a Man Holding a Book 1540
97x77cm oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Museum of Fine Arts Boston:
Titian was one of the first painters to use canvas as a support for nearly all of his portraits. He exploited the texture of the fabric as well as the three-dimensional properties of oil paint to create broken strokes and bold touches. In this portrait, Titian’s red-haired sitter is unidentified, but his book and sword proclaim his learning and noble status. He wears an ostentatious costume with prominent slashes, decorative aglets, and cuffs and collar dotted with pearls. Unlike Titian, he probably wasn’t Venetian—Venetian men of this period preferred solid colored robes.