PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo
(b. 1529, Bologna, d. 1592, Bologna)

Portrait of a Man Playing a Lute

1576
Oil on canvas, 77 x 60 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Between 1575 and the early 1580s, Passerotti was Bologna's pre-eminent painter. He produced many altarpieces while also painting genre scenes.




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