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The melancholy Portrait of a Man by Lorenzo Lotto is probably the portrait of the widower, Mercurio Bua, because of the small skull surrounded by rose petals, reminiscent of a fatal confinement. Mercurio Bua was an Albanian condottiere in the service of the Venetian government
It is assumed by some scholars that the painting represents the self-portrait of the artist, however, this identification is not generally accepted.
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