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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This portrait is the last known work of Domenico Capriolo. The sitter, Lelio Torelli, was portrayed when he was thirty-nine years old, shortly after he was appointed Governor of Rimini by Pandolfo Malatesta. In later years, Torelli's role as secretary of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici made him an important figure within Tuscan humanist circles. The author Benedetto Varchi referred to Torelli as a man 'of generosity, as well as rather singular learning'. Although Capriolo's portraits often recall Venetian models, this picture is closer to the style of the Tuscan painters Sebastiano Florigerio and Bernardino Licinio. | Subjects: | portrait (Torelli Lelio) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Capriolo, Domenico (Italian painter, ca.1494-1528) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8996... | Go to resource |
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