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- 118 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Man with a Glove is an oil-on-canvas portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, circa 1520. It is currently housed in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It is signed Ticianus f. on the marble slab on the lower right corner.
- 220 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of Baldassare Castiglione is a c. 1514–1515 oil painting attributed to the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. Considered one of the great portraits of the Renaissance, it has an enduring influence. It depicts Raphael's friend, the diplomat and humanist Baldassare Castiglione, who is considered a quintessential example of the High Renaissance gentleman. The portrait was produced as a result of Raphael's friendship with Castiglione, whose ascent in courtly circles paralleled that of the artist. They were close friends by 1504, when Castiglione made his second visit to Urbino, as Raphael was gaining recognition as an artist in the humanist circle of the city's ducal court. Raphael was commissioned by Guidobaldo da Montefeltro in 1505 to paint a picture for Henry VII; Castiglione traveled to England to present the finished painting to the king. It is possible that Castiglione later served as a "scholarly advisor" for Raphael's The School of Athens, and that the depiction of Zoroaster in that fresco may be a portrait of the courtier. Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione may have had a practical and intimate purpose.
- 327 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Portrait of Agnolo Doni is an oil painting by Italian Renaissance master Raphael, executed between 1506 and 1507. It is currently housed in the Pitti Palace in Florence.
- 410 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Infantin Isabella Clara Eugenia" (1599) is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola.
- 516 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1797. The subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.More Mona Lisa
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- 617 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of Eleonora Gonzaga (1538) is a painting by Venetian artist Titian
- 711 VOTESPhoto: user uploaded image"Family Portrait" (1557) is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola.
- 816 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating from 1501. It is on display in the National Gallery in London. It portrays Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, in his ceremonial garments with the corno worn over a linen cap, and is signed "IOANNES BELLINVS" on a cartellino.
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- 910 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainAn Old Man and His Grandson (c. 1490) is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Domenico Ghirlandaio.
- 109 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Elizabeth of Valois" (c. 1563-1565) is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola.
- 115 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of a Man (c. 1510-1512) is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Titian. Art historians now believe that it is a self-portrait.
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Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Portrait of Prince Philip of Spain" (1549) is a painting by Renaissance artist Titian. - 134 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of Vincenzo Mosti is a painting by Titian, executed around 1520 and now housed in the Galleria Palatina of Florence, Italy.
- 145 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of Doge Francesco Venier (1555) is a painting by Venetian artist Titian.
- 153 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Self-Portrait with a friend is a painting by Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It dates to 1518-1520, and is housed in the Louvre Museum of Paris, France.
- 166 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of a Young Man is a painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio, although this attribution is disputed. The subject of this painting is wearing a chaperon.
- 176 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainDaniele Barbaro (1545) is a painting by Italian painter Titian.
- 184 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of Ranuccio Farnese (1542) is a painting by Venetian artist Titian.
- 197 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainGinevra de’ Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de’ Benci . The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1967. The sum of US$5 million--a record price at the time--came from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and was paid to the Princely House of Liechtenstein. It is the only painting by Leonardo on public view in the Americas. It is known that Leonardo painted a portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci in 1474, painted in Florence possibly to commemorate her marriage that year to Luigi di Bernardo Niccolini at the age of 16. According to Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, however, Ginevra was not the daughter of Amerigo de’ Benci, and the wife of Luigi di Bernardo Niccolini. They married on 14 January 1474. The painting’s imagery and the text on the reverse of the panel support the identification of this picture. Directly behind the young lady in the portrait is a juniper tree. The reverse of the portrait is decorated with a juniper sprig encircled by a wreath of laurel and palm and is memorialized by the phrase VIRTVTEM FORMA DECORAT.
- 204 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of a Young Man is a painting in oil on panel, probably from 1513–1514, by the Italian High Renaissance Old Master painter and architect Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino better known simply as Raphael. The painting was stolen by the Nazis from Poland. Many historians regard it as the most important painting missing since World War II. The subject's identity is unverified, but many scholars have traditionally regarded it as Raphael's self-portrait. The facial features are perceived by specialists as compatible with, if not clearly identical to, the only undoubted self-portrait by Raphael in his fresco The School of Athens at the Vatican, identified as such by Vasari. If it is a self-portrait, no hint is given of Raphael's profession; the portrait shows a richly-dressed and "confidently-poised" young man. The painting was brought to Poland, along with Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine and many Roman antiquities, by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, son of Princess Izabela Czartoryska, on his travels to Italy in 1798.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Portrait of Andrea Navagero e Agostino Beazzano is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, created in 1516. It is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome.
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- 226 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPortrait of a Young Man or Portrait of a Youth, a portrait attributed to Sandro Botticelli, is an example of Italian Renaissance painting. It was painted in the early 1480s with tempera on panel and is now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Features of this piece include his interesting expression and elegant hand gesture, which some have interpreted as an early depiction of juvenile arthritis or Marfan syndrome.
- 234 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga is a painting from around 1504, attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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