Lombard School, 16th Century

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Lombard School, 16th Century

Portraits of bearded men, heads only, in profile, before barrel vaults

oil on panel
38 x 38.5 cm; 37 x 38 cm, unframed (2)

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To be compared with a series of forty-four similar portraits, removed from the Palace of San Martino Gusnago, between Mantua and Brescia, where they formed part of a ceiling decoration. Six of this series are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and a further twelve are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This series is thought to be the work of a Lombard artist, active in the first quarter of the 16th century, for which see F. Zeri and E. E. Gardner, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; North Italian School, 1986, pp. 72/74, figs. 59/61

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