Portrait of a Young Man (Botticelli, Pitti Palace)
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The ''Portrait of a Young Man'' is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist
Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli (, ), was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th cent ...
, dated between 1470 and 1475. It is housed in the
Palazzo Pitti The Palazzo Pitti (), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present ...
of
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. Variously attributed to different painters, it was eventually included in Botticelli's works. It is one of the first known three-quarters portraits in western European art.


See also

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List of works by Sandro Botticelli The following is a list of panel paintings, works on canvas and frescoes by the Italian painter Sandro Botticelli.Barbara Deimling. ''Botticelli.'' Taschen. Cologne 2007. The few surviving drawings are excluded. It is not indicated if some works m ...
*Botticelli's portraits at
National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...
, London, and
National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of ch ...
, Washington, D. C.


External links


Palazzo Pitti
– Official website 1470s paintings Young Man, Botticelli Paintings in the Galleria Palatina Young Man {{15C-painting-stub