Portrait of a Youth
1503
oil
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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Giorgione
Giorgione was a quiet voice in Venice around 1505, a city full of color and trade.
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oil
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Portrait of a Youth is a 1503 oil by Giorgione, a High Renaissance work, depicting Young Adult Man, held at Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
The painting features a young man with dark hair, wearing a black shirt adorned with gold embroidery. He is shown from the chest up, with his right hand resting on his chest. The background is a muted gray-brown color. A small, circular portrait is visible at the bottom of the painting, although the details are not clear. The overall atmosphere of the painting is somber and introspective. To learn more about the artist's use of chiaroscuro, a technique that emphasizes contrasts between light and dark, explore Giorgione's other works.
Portrait of a Young Man or Portrait of a Youth is a c.1508-1510 painting, attributed to Giorgione and now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Some have instead attributed it to Giorgione's collaborator Giovanni Cariani. The work was produced late in the artist's career, with the parapet and dark background showing the influence of Flemish models. The parapet bears the inscription "V" on a shield, possibly a symbol of the Latin word "virtus", meaning virtue or courage, and an ancient Roman cameo with a triple female head and a tiny cartouche with a near-illegible inscription. Some thus…
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Giorgione was a quiet voice in Venice around 1505, a city full of color and trade.
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