''Portrait of a Man'' is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1545 by the Italian High Renaissance artist

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Painting, painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school (art), Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He pain ...

. Its dating is based on stylistic similarities to Lotto's other works of the mid-1540s, such as '' Portrait of an Old Man with Gloves'' (Milan). Another theory holds that the subject is Giovanni Taurini da Montepulciano, viceroy of

Ancona Ancona (, also , ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region. The city is located northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic S ...

, which would change the date to 1551, the year of Lotto's arrival in Ancona. It is now in the

Pinacoteca di Brera The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of ...

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, which it entered in 1855 as part of the Oggioni Bequest.Brera. ''Guida alla Pinacoteca'', Electa, Milano 2004.

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1545 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera

Man A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromos ...

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