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Still life with Sardines and Sea Urchins, 1880–1882, Dallas Museum of Art. Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances. He attended the École Municipale de Dessin in Marseille from 1842 to 1846, and continued his artistic training in Paris, where he studied under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts.
The Portrait of a Young Man is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, dated between 1470 and 1475. It is housed in the Palazzo Pitti of Florence. Variously attributed to different painters, it was eventually included in Botticelli's works. It is one of the first known three-quarters portraits in western European art.
Art historians point out changing conventions of portraiture in Botticelli's painting: "earlier Florentine portraits were in profile. The woman's three-quarter pose, with her hand on the window frame, was Botticelli's own invention." [2] The portrait is thought to be the first example of a three-quarter pose in Florentine portrait painting. "By ...
In January 2021, the portrait was sold at an auction at Sotheby's New York for more than US$92.2 million [13] to a Russian-speaking collector. [14] The price for the painting was the highest paid for a Botticelli and the highest for an Old Master work since Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi sold in 2017.
The appearance at an auction in 1982, from the Thomas Merton collection, of a rarely seen painting by Botticelli of a Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel identified (with no real evidence) as Giovanni il Popolano in a similar pose, holding up a round medallion cut from a much older painting (albeit of a bearded saint, not Cosimo), has led ...
Bellocq was born into a wealthy family of French créole origins [2] in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He became known locally as an amateur photographer before setting himself up as a professional, making his living mostly by taking photographic records of landmarks and of ships and machinery for local companies. [3]
FLORENCE, Italy — The sun-soaked yet chilly winter days here provided an extra boost of joy for attendees at Pitti Uomo, long deemed as a key research space for trends and impeccable tailoring ...
The art historian Aby Warburg first suggested the painting was an idealised portrait of Simonetta Vespucci. This challenged a previous interpretation, put forward by German scholars, according to which the painting describes an ideally beautiful young woman mythologised as a nymph or goddess, a view reflected in the title given it by the Städel.