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Portrait of a Man 1497

by Fra Bartolomeo

In painting this fine portrait, which dates about 1497, Fra Bartolomeo took as his model the work of Hans Memling, whose portraits of Florentine merchants in Bruges were well known in Italy. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo had a keen response to nature, drawing landscape views in an album (for example, MMA 57.165; visit metmuseum.org). The inscription with the putat...

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