Frans Floris I, 1580 - Study Head of a Bearded Man - fine art print

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This over 440 year-old work of art "Study Head of a Bearded Man" was painted by Frans Floris I in 1580. The version of the piece of art measures the size of 18 5/16 × 13 1/4 in (46,5 × 33,6 cm) and was painted with the technique of oil on panel. The original artwork's inscription is the following: inscribed upper left: FFF. Nowadays, this artwork forms part of the digital art collection of Art Institute Chicago, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. With courtesy of: Art Institute Chicago (licensed: public domain). Moreover, the work of art has the following creditline: Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader. In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width.

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Directing large workshop that produced religious and mythological paintings in Antwerp, Frans Floris pioneered the use of head studies like this one to work out expression and movement for complex figural compositions. Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, and other painters of historical subjects in the 17th century continued this practice. Whereas large finished works from Floris’s shop probably involved the participation of assistants, head studies were executed by the master himself. This study, which may represent Hercules or a figure from a Last Judgement, is marked with his monogram FFF in the upper-left corner.