Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page  1533

[i]He was a handsome gentleman, well built and tall. . .who was always exquisitely dressed and well perfumed--in peacetime and in wartime--right down to the saddles of his horses. [br][/i]--The Abbot of Brantôme Titian's Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, painted in Bologna in the winter of 1533, signals the inception of one of the most influential prototypes in the history...