# Portrait of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROSSO FIORENTINO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 51 x 40 cm ## Commentary Early Renaissance portraits show subjects in profile. By the time Rosso made this uncompromising depiction, however, painters had largely freed their sitters in the name of naturalness. Here, the angle of body and head create a deliberately laboured torsion, typical of Rosso's postures, even more difficult than Michelangelo's. ## Related artworks - [A Young Man]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Betrothal of the Virgin]() - [Dead Christ with Angels]() - [Decoration]() - [Deposition from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Deposition from the Cross]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()