Italian: Portrait of a Gentleman and Son, Unidentified artist, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian, Mid-16th century, Oil on canvas, Recent scholarship has suggested the portrait is by a member of the school of Alessandro Bonvicino known as Moretto, from Brescia, a city in Lombardy under the influence of Venice. The unknown sitter (earlier thought to be the orator Francesco Filetto) and his son are shown in half-length in front of a neutral background. The uncertain gaze of the boy draws the viewer into the painting. Portraits such as these were commissioned by patrician families as a reflectio

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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