Portrait of a boy of the Bracciforte Family of Piacenza

Bedoli, Girolamo Mazzola (ca. 1505-1569 or 1570)

Abate, Nicolò dell’ (1509 or 1512-1571) (formerly attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1560
Height:
165.1 cm  (65 in.)
Width:
87.9 cm  (34 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Description

Portrait of a boy from an aristocratic family. On a table to his right stand a flute, book, and an allegorical statue of Fame holding two trumpets.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flute [3955]
Trumpet [4446]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986) 48-50.

RIdIM record id

5373