Portrait of a Young Man with a Book is an oil-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco in Milan, to which it was bequeathed in 1876.[1] At that time its artist was unknown.[2] It is dated to between the end of Lotto's time in Bergamo and his early years in Venice, that is between 1524 and 1527, and more specifically to around 1526.[3]
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References
edit- ^ AA.VV., La Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco a Milano, Skira, Milano 2005.ISBN 88-7624-260-0
- ^ Roberta D'Adda, Lotto, Skira, Milano 2004
- ^ Carlo Pirovano, Lotto, Electa, Milano 2002. ISBN 88-435-7550-3