''Portrait of Iseppo da Porto and his son Adriano'' is a c.1555 oil-on-canvas painting by

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

, now in the Contini Bonacossi collection, on long-term loan to the

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in Florence. Veronese also decorated Porto's

Palazzo Porto Palazzo Porto is a palace built by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in Contrà Porti, Vicenza, Italy. It is one of two palaces in the city designed by Palladio for members of the Porto family (the other being Palazzo Porto in Piazza ...

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, designed by

Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of th ...

and completed in 1552. It is a pendant to a portrait of Iseppo's wife Livia or Lucia Thien, who he married in 1545, and one of their daughters. It was acquired in Paris from the Sedelmeyer collection by

Alessandro Contini Bonacossi Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (18 March 1878 - 22 October 1955) was an Italian politician, art collector, dealer and philatelist. In 1939 he was made a Senator of the Kingdom of Vittorio Emanuele III. Early life Contini-Bonacossi was born in ...

, though its female pendant was by then in a private collection in

, from which it later passed to the

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Additional images

File:Paolo Veronese - Iseppo and Adriano da Porto - WGA24977.jpg, Preparatory drawing (Louvre, n. 4678) File: Paolo Veronese - Portrait of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Deidamia - Google Art Project.jpg , ''Portrait of Livia da Porto Thiene and her daughter'' (Baltimore)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Portrait of Iseppo da Porto and his son Adriano Paintings in the collection of the Uffizi

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

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