Portrait of a young Man with a Skull

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Licinio was impressed by the art of Giorgione, exploring the type of poetic portrait that he and artists in his circle had developed. Youth and beauty are contrasted with death and decay in this expressive portrait of c.1510–1515. The sitter was traditionally thought to be a woman due to overpainting, which was removed in 1956.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Portrait of a young Man with a Skull

Date

c. 1510–1515

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 75.7 x W 63.3 cm

Accession number

WA1946.199

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Gaspard O. Farrer through the Art Fund, 1946

Work type

Painting

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