Why it matters
A man turns towards us, his large quilted sleeve projecting beyond the parapet in front of him. Long thought to be Ariosto or a self-portrait, the National Gallery has called it Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo since 2017.
Did you know?
- It was painted around 1510.
- It measures 81.2 × 66.3 cm.
- Rembrandt saw it in Amsterdam.
Based on the Wikipedia article A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (CC BY-SA 4.0).