# Two male heads [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red chalk on brown paper, 142 x 113 mm ## Commentary The bearded man, facing forward, is considered by most critics to be a self-portrait executed by Polidoro da Caravaggio. The bearded face in this study is an archetypal character who recurs often in the artist's pictorial works, and it is not implausible that the artist chose a self-portrait to create a figure with a universal quality that could be used in different compositions. ## Related artworks - [Design for a Vase]() - [Group of Figures Holding Book]() - [Noli me tangere]() - [Schoolmistress with Her Pupils]() - [Studies of a Male Torso]() - [Young Men Dancing around a Woman]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()