Portrait of a Man shortly after 1497 Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) Italian In painting this fine portrait, which dates about 1497, Fra Bartolomeo took as his model the work of Hans Memling, whose portraits of Florentine merchants in Bruges were well known in Italy. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo had a keen response to nature, drawing landscape views in an album (for example, The Met ; visit ). The inscription with the putative name of the sitter was added Portrait of a Man 435615

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