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Retrato de Giovanni Battista Porta

Type of object

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Descripción

The chalk holder on the armrest, accompanied by a book with white and red bookmarks, suggests that the unknown man in the painting might be an artist. The attributes bring together the work of the hands and the soaring of the spirit, echoing Horace’s famous dictum ”Ut pictura poesis” (as is painting so is poetry).

Creation

Measurements

116x98

Inscriptions

  • firmado

Other titles / names

  • Retrato de Giovanni Battista Porta

  • Portrait of a Man

    Statens Museum for Kunst

History