# Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli and an Unknown Young Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BARBARI, Jacopo de']() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Wood ## Commentary Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli and an Unknown Young Man c. 1495 Wood Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli \(sometimes Paciolo\) \(1446/7-1517\) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Santo Sepolcro, Tuscany. The table is filled with geometrical tools: slate, chalk, compass, a dodecahedron model and a rhombicuboctahedron half-filed with water is hanging in the air. Pacioli is demonstrating a theorem by Euclid. ## Related artworks - [Allegory \(verso of the Portrait of a Man\)]() - [Christ]() - [Cleopatra]() - [Mars and Venus]() - [Nude Woman Holding a Mirror]() - [Perspective plan of Venice \(detail\)]() - [Perspective plan of Venice \(detail\)]() - [Perspective plan of Venice \(detail\)]() - [Perspective plan of Venice]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlet]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()