CONTE, Jacopino del
(b. ca. 1515, Firenze, d. 1598, Roma)
CONTE, Jacopino del (b. ca. 1515, Firenze, d. 1598, Roma) |
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Portrait of Bindo Altoviti1550sOil on canvas, 129 x 103 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal | |
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Bindo Altoviti (1491-1557) of the House of Altoviti was one of the most influential papal bankers of his generation and patron to the arts cultivating close friendships with artists as Vasari, Cellini, Raphael and Michelangelo. His famous portrait of 1515 as a young man by Raphael is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. | |
