TIZIANO Vecellio
(b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d. 1576, Venezia)

Portrait of Pietro Cardinal Bembo

1545-46
Oil on canvas, 58 x 46 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

This excellent portrait was for long time attributed to Jacopo Bassano. However, it is one of the several portraits of Pietro Cardinal Bembo, the poet and scholar, which Titian painted between 1530 and 1550.