Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox artwork The Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan (Template:Langx) is a painting by Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating from c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. It portrays Leonardo Loredan, the Doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, in his ceremonial garments with the corno ducale worn over a linen cap, and is signed IOANNES BELLINVSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". on a cartellino ("small paper"). It is on display in the National Gallery in London.
Description
This formal portrait depicts Leonardo Loredan in his official state robes as Doge of Venice, with its ornate buttons. The distinctively shaped hat is derived from the hood of a doublet.[1] As with other traditional portraits of the Doge, the composition resembles a Roman sculpted portrait bust. The painting is signed IOANNES BELLINVSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – the Latin form of Giovanni Bellini – on a cartellino attached to a parapet at the base of the composition.[1]
John Pope-Hennessy described Bellini as "by far the greatest fifteenth-century official portraitist", adding that "the tendency towards ideality that impairs his private portraits here stood him in good stead, and enabled him to codify, with unwavering conviction, the official personality".[2]
Provenance
The painting would initially have been in Venice and was probably looted when Napoleon conquered the city. It was bought in 1807 for thirteen guineas by William Thomas Beckford, who in 1844 sold it to the National Gallery for £630 (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".).[3]
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