Portrait of a Clad Warrior (Savoldo)
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The Portrait of a Clad Warrior, also known as Portrait of Gaston of Foix is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance
painter Girolamo Savoldo
, dating to c. 1529 and housed in the Louvre Museum of Paris
, France.
The subject is traditionally identified with the French military leader Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, or a self-portrait, although there is no documentary evidence of both hypotheses.
The painting depict a man wearing an armor in a small room with two mirrors. He lies diagonally on a shelf, one hand pointing at his reflected image. The presence of three sources of light (front, read and side) was inspired by a lost work by Giorgione
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High Renaissance
The expression High Renaissance, in art history, is a periodizing convention used to denote the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance...
painter Girolamo Savoldo
Girolamo Savoldo
Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia was an Italian High Renaissance painter.-Biography:...
, dating to c. 1529 and housed in the Louvre Museum of Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France.
The subject is traditionally identified with the French military leader Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, or a self-portrait, although there is no documentary evidence of both hypotheses.
The painting depict a man wearing an armor in a small room with two mirrors. He lies diagonally on a shelf, one hand pointing at his reflected image. The presence of three sources of light (front, read and side) was inspired by a lost work by Giorgione
Giorgione
Giorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...
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