Portrait of A Man (c. 1475, Madrid)
This portrait, finished c. 1475, is housed in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, in Madrid, Spain.
Among Antonello's portraits, it is among the most expressively animated ones. The subject, a young man, is drawn from a quite near point of view, with the usual skill in details rendering.
The picture has been approximatively dated to the early 1470s, basing on the typical "zuccotto" headgear, a fashion more characteristical of 1460s Italy.
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