Titian, Tiziano Vecelli - Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro 1514-1518
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Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro 1514-1518
85x72cm oil on canvas
Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle, London, United Kingdom
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle:
Titian’s portraiture was much admired; early in his career, he recorded the features of friends, writers and Venetian noblemen before his international fame led to commissions from Emperor Charles V, the Pope and King Philip II of Spain. This imposing portrait shows a nobleman gazing fixedly forward, lost in thought, his finger tucked into a book to keep his place. It has been suggested that he is the Neapolitan poet and humanist Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530).
Now universally accepted as by Titian, the work has been recently restored to reveal the subtle play of the brown-patterned damask of the saione or skirted jerkin against the dark brown fur lining and the black of the gown. The background would originally have been a subtle, paler grey, giving a cool depth, so that the man’s black silhouette stood out against it more clearly, as shown in the print by Cornelius van Dalen the Younger for the Reynst collection.