BARTOLOMEO VENETO
(active 1502, d. 1531, Torino)

Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman

1508-10
Oil and tempera on panel, 59 x 47 cm
Private collection

This portrait belongs to the High Renaissance portrait tradition of the Veneto, which began with Gentile and Giovanni Bellini and continued with the portraits of Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Cariani and others.