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| Portrait of a Man |
Artist:Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) (Italian, Florence 1486–1530 Florence)
Date:1528–30
Medium:Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
Dimensions:26 1/4 x 19 7/8 in. (66.7 x 50.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
This is probably the "natural-seeming and very beautiful" portrait of a canon from Pisa Cathedral that the biographer Vasari describes in his Life of Andrea del Sarto. The canon was a close friend of the artist and helped him to secure his last commissions. He is shown holding a small prayer book, or Book of Hours.
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