# Portrait of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOTTICELLI, Sandro]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on canvas transferred from wood, 49 x 35 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Man c. 1490 Tempera on canvas transferred from wood, 49 x 35 cm Private collection According to Berenson, the sitter of this portrait is Michele Marullo \(1453-1500\), known as Tarcaniota, a Greek humanist, who was the guest of the Medici's between 1489 and 1495. Later, in 1496, he returned to Florence and married the woman poet Alessandra Scala. He left Florence in 1490 and soon after he died by drowning into the river Cecina. This painting can be considered an ideal scholar portrait, a forerunner of those portrayals of philosopher-heroes developed in the seventeenth century, e.g. <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/giordano/2/cynical.html'\)" href="/html/g/giordano/2/cynical.html">by Luca Giordano.</a> The painting is in a very poor state of preservation. ## Related artworks - [A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts]() - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Allegory of Abundance]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()