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Painting
Portrait of a Man
Vincenzo di Biagio Catena, (ca. 1470 - 1531)
Catena, Vincenzo di Biagio
Italy
ca. 1470 - 1531
Male
12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (32.4 x 26 cm)
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Oil
Oil
ca. 1508
1503
1513
1400-1600, European art, men, paintings, portrait, portraits
Painting
Vicenzo Catena was active a generation after Hans Memling, the Northern Renaissance artist who inspired Kehinde Wiley’s contemporary portrait nearby. Despite a difference of 500 years in the creation of Catena’s and Wiley’s portraits, the similarities are striking. Both are three-quarter profiles of young men of their day, set in a distant landscape. The sitters are linked not by social status but by their stillness and intensity of gaze, and by their immediate relationship to the viewer.
Catena’s patrons were primarily members of the aristocratic and wealthy classes of Venice, Italy, of which the sitter for "Portrait of a Young Man" was certainly a member. The portrait’s aesthetic appeal derives from the simple, crisp composition; high level of craftsmanship; strong characterization of the sitter; and fluid use of brilliant and contrasting oil glazes.
[Hawks Gallery reinstallation, summer 2019]
back of frameback of frameback of frameback of cradleback of cradle, Two identical red wax sealsside of frame
1949.64
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Memorial Art Gallery
2/20/2001
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5/16/2002
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