Portrait of Giovanni Philotheo Achillini
Raimondi, Marcantonio (born ca. 1470/1482, died 1527/1534)
Francia, Francesco (ca. 1450-1517) (after a work of)
Additional titles
Guitar-player
Portrait of Jean-Philotée Achillini: seated man playing guitar on hill near tree, landscape with small town in background
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum
[Museum inv. no.: G8241]Gray Collection of Engravings Fund - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
[Museum inv. no.: P1205]Sheet: 18.4 x 13.4 cm - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
[Museum inv. no.: 25.2.26]Sheet: 18.5 × 13.4 cm
Item location
Description
Outdoor scene with a man seated, his right foot resting on his instrument case, playing a viola da mano (vihuela); hanging from the crook of a tree branch is a sign adorned with the letters PHIL/OTHE/O. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art website: Jean-Philotée Achillini was a poet versed in ancient languages, law, theology, and music born in Bologne in 1466, three years after his brother Alexander, a doctor and philosopher who was known by citizens of Bologne as "the second Aristotle".People as subjects
Achillini, Giovanni Filoteo (1466-1538) (Musician)Iconclass
48CC723portrait of a musician - CC - out of doors
Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)
Vihuela [3252] (appears to have 5 courses of strings)RIdIM images
Metropolitan Museum of Art image
Image URLs
image link 1Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
image link 2Harvard Art Museums
image link 3Metropolitan Museum of Art