# Portrait of a Young Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BIAGIO D'ANTONIO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 54 x 39 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Young Man c. 1470 Tempera on wood, 54 x 39 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The unidentified sitter - no more than fifteen or sixteen years old - stands before an extensive landscape and stares at the spectator with self-confidence. The view of the walled city of Florence in the middle ground at left indicates that he was Florentine. Formerly the painting was attributed to Botticelli, only in the 1930s it was recognized as a work by Biagio d'Antonio, a prolific Florentine painter, a contemporary of Botticelli. Biagio was one of the team of artists including Botticelli, Cosimo Rosselli, Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Luca Signorelli who decorated the side walls of the Sistine Chapel in 1481-82. Biagio's talent for portraiture is evident in the animated faces he painted in the Sistine Chapel. The present painting is one of the three surviving autonomous portraits by Biagio, all of them bust-length portrayals of young men standing before landscape background. The portrait in the Metropolitan Museum is the earliest, reflecting Verrocchio's sculptural style, it probably dates from about 1470. ## Related artworks - [Arrest of Christ]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Madonna Adoring the Child with an Angel]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Portrait of a Boy]() - [Scenes from the Story of Io]() - [Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts]() - [The Triumph of Camillus]() - [Virgin and Child Enthroned with Five Saints and Two Angels]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()