Portrait of a Young Man  1490

A brilliant miniature painter, Jacometto was also outstanding at portraits. He was much influenced by the Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina, who worked in Venice in 1475–76, but Jacometto’s portraits have a crystalline clarity, enhanced by the black background. The distinctive hairstyle—a zazzera—was fashionable in Venice in the 1480s and 90s. (Source: T[url=https://ww...