Bambino Gesu
Bernardino Luini
1510–1520
Portrait of a Musician
Ritratto di musico
Artwork Specifications
- Dimensions
- 44.7 × 32 cm
- Location
- Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Meet the artist
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci1452–1519 · Italian“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Where to see it
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Milan, ItalyLeonardo's only known male portrait, an unfinished work c.1483-1487 from his first Milan stay. A young man holds folded sheet music revealed during 1905 restoration. The sitter's identity is debated: Franchino Gaffurio, Atalante Migliorotti, or Josquin des Prez.
Marks a shift from Milan's profile portraiture toward the three-quarter view influenced by Antonello da Messina. Only the face and hair are fully resolved, displaying Leonardo's characteristic sfumato.
Kenneth Clark called it perhaps the best preserved of Leonardo's surviving works. At the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan since at least 1672.
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Collection highlights at Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
