Portrait of Ugolino Martelli
1550
unspecified
From the collection of University of Cyprus
1550
unspecified
From the collection of University of Cyprus
Dominant colour
Portrait of Ugolino Martelli is a 1550 unspecified by Agnolo di Cosimo di Marino, a High Renaissance work, held at University of Cyprus.
The painting shows a young man sitting with a book in front of him. He's dressed nicely and looks serious. The book is a copy of Homer's Iliad, which was important for a classical education. The young man, Ugolino Martelli, is shown with books by famous authors like Virgil and Pietro Bembo. This suggests he valued learning and wanted to show it. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Agnolo di Cosimo di Marino (Bronzino).
This mid-1500s Florentine painter filled canvases with sharp-eyed portraits of the city’s thinkers and nobles.
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