A Man with a Pair of Dividers

A Man with a Pair of Dividers

Artist: Gentile Bellini (Italian, Active about 1460, died 1507)

Original Dimensions: 27 1/4" x 23 1/4"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (About 1500) "This portrait is probably by Gentile Bellini, though we can‘t be sure. It’s unusual among his portraits – we don’t know the identity of the sitter and most of Gentile’s surviving portraits are of well-known figures. It was once thought to be the mathematician Girolamo Malatini because he holds a pair of dividers (a compass). Malatini is said to have taught Giovanni Bellini, Gentile’s brother, and Carpaccio, another Venetian painter, how to incorporate theories of perspective into their paintings. But it was not only mathematicians who used compasses – artists and architects, among other professionals, did too. An alternative suggestion is that Gentile has painted Giovanni. Like many of Gentile’s portraits, the background is very dark so that the sitter’s face stands out, as do his hands. The lack of detail is unusual in a work by Gentile, who usually took great pains to express the qualities of varying surfaces in paint and enjoyed painting different kinds of materials and jewels." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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