Portrait of a Man  1530

This is probably the "natural-seeming and very beautiful" portrait of a canon from Pisa Cathedral that the biographer Vasari describes in his Life of Andrea del Sarto. The canon was a close friend of the artist and helped him to secure his last commissions. He is shown holding a small prayer book, or Book of Hours. (Source: [url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/sea...