The Portrait of a Musician is a singularity in Leonardo\u2019s work: of all his portraits, it is the only one showing a man. For centuries it was believed the Duke of Milan looked out of it \u2013 until a cleaning revealed a hand holding a sheet of music and changed entirely who this person might have been. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this collected face into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n
The work was made around 1483\u20131487 in Milan, measures 44.7 \u00d7 32 cm and is painted on a walnut panel; it is held in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan. In truth only the face and hair are finished. The doublet was left unexecuted and the stole is merely undercoated. That incompleteness is instructive: we see Leonardo\u2019s way of working, carrying to completion first what interested him \u2013 the head \u2013 and leaving the rest for a later that never came.<\/p>\n
Until the early twentieth century the portrait was taken to show Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. In 1904\u20131905 the restorers Luigi Cavenaghi and Antonio Grandi removed a layer of overpaint \u2013 and beneath it appeared a hand holding a folded sheet of music. The duke fell away, and the painting acquired the name it carries today. The notes and letters on the sheet are largely illegible given the painting\u2019s condition; scholars have suggested the partly surviving letters \u201cCant\u201d and \u201cAn\u201d stand for Cantum Angelicum<\/em>, angelic song. Who the musician was remains unknown.<\/p>\n Modern scholarship counts the work among Leonardo\u2019s. Over the body, however, uncertainty remains: some hold that a pupil assisted him, the names raised most often being Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio and Ambrogio de Predis. On the face agreement is much wider \u2013 it is generally held to be entirely Leonardo\u2019s. That is how to read the painting honestly: the master\u2019s head, perhaps a workshop body, and between them a border you can see.<\/p>\n Every reproduction of the Portrait of a Musician is entirely hand-painted in oil on canvas \u2013 not a print, but a real painting created for you by an experienced artist. It is available in eight sizes, stretched on a wooden frame on request and in a frame from our 3D range. The dark ground and sharp gaze make the work strong on a quiet wall, in an office, or beside an instrument.<\/p>\n Portrait of a Musician \u2013 the only male portrait Leonardo painted The Portrait of a Musician is a singularity in Leonardo\u2019s work: of all his portraits, it is the only one showing a man. For centuries it was believed the Duke of Milan looked out of it \u2013 until a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":134093,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[9810],"product_tag":[9831,9870,9862,9863],"class_list":["post-134099","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-leonardo-da-vinci","product_tag-da-vinci-en","product_tag-painter","product_tag-reproduction-en","product_tag-reproductions","pa_dimenzija-120-x-160-cm","pa_dimenzija-150-x-200-cm","pa_dimenzija-40-x-55-cm","pa_dimenzija-50-x-70-cm","pa_dimenzija-60-x-80-cm","pa_dimenzija-70-x-110-cm","pa_dimenzija-80-x-110-cm","pa_dimenzija-90-x-120-cm","pa_oblika-vertical","pa_okvir-without-frame","pa_podokvir-without","pa_podokvir-yes","first","onbackorder","purchasable","product-type-variable","has-default-attributes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe face is Leonardo\u2019s, the body perhaps not<\/h3>\n
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