# Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Gaddi [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CONTE, Jacopino del]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 111 x 94 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Gaddi c. 1545 Oil on canvas, 111 x 94 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The sitter of this portrait, Cardinal Niccolò Gaddi \(1537-1591\), belonged to the Gaddi family which had occupied a major role in Florentine political life for a long while. He is notable as an art collector and advisor to the Medici art collections. This portrait depicts an architectural background in the left, with light falling through a window. The cardinal holds gloves in one hand. Jacopino's latest works, such as the Portrait of a Cardinal Niccolò Gaddi, are characterized by a formal severity and cold directness favoured in Roman Counter-Reformation circles, ## Related artworks - [Frescoes on the entrance wall]() - [Frescoes on the entrance wall]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Bindo Altoviti]() - [Portrait of Paul III with a Councilor]() - [Saint Catherine of Alexandria]() - [The Annunciation to Zachariah]() - [View of the oratory]() - [Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth and the Infant Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()