Jacometto, 1485 - Portrait of Alvise Contarini; (Verso) A Tethered Roebuck - fine art print

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This exquisite and enigmatic portrait and its pendant (1975.1.85) are most likely the works by the Venetian painter and illuminator Jacometto, recorded by the connoisseur Marcantonio Michiel in the collection of a Venetian patrician in 1543. Michiel, who praised them as "a most perfect work," identified the man as Alvise Contarini and the woman as a "nun of San Secondo" (a Benedictine convent in Venice). The paired portraits and the allusion to fidelity on the verso of the male effigy (a roebuck chained beneath the Greek word AIEI, meaning “forever”) would normally suggest a married couple; however, her possible status as a nun makes it difficult to determine their relationship. If the garment is a habit, which seems doubtful given her bare shoulders, she may have led a secular life as a nun or entered the convent as a widow. The portrait may have been commissioned platonically (such cases are known). Alternatively, the wimple-like headdress may represent an entirely secular and contemporary fashion trend. Perhaps the portraits, which probably fit together in a boxlike frame, were designed to hide their clandestine relationship.Illustrating the influence of Netherlandish painting on Venetian portraiture, the portraits are striking for their meticulous detail, highly refined technique, and luminous, atmospheric landscape backgrounds.

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• Aluminium dibond print: Aluminium Dibond prints are prints on metal with an impressive depth.
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The artpiece called Portrait of Alvise Contarini; (Verso) A Tethered Roebuck was created by Jacometto. The painting was made with the size: Overall 4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in ; recto, painted surface 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in; verso, painted surface 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 in. Oil on wood; verso: oil and gold on wood was used by the Italian painter as the technique for the masterpiece. This artwork forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (public domain license). Also, the artwork has the creditline: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width.

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