# Portrait of a Man in Armour \(known as Gaston de Foix} [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SAVOLDO, Giovanni Girolamo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 91 x 123 cm ## Commentary Portrait of a Man in Armour \(known as Gaston de Foix} c. 1529 Oil on canvas, 91 x 123 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is probably not of the noble French commander Gaston de Foix, killed in the Battle of Ravenna on April 11, 1512, but of the painter Savoldo himself. A strange work of art, the painting reflects the remarkable ability of its creator and is also designed to suggest the general superiority of painting over sculpture: thanks to two mirrors in the background, and the various parts of the armour, the viewer has a view of the knight in the round, and also a complete view of the room and its furniture from every angle. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Bust of a Youth]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Head of a Bearded Man]() - [Head of a Man]() - [Head of a Woman with Eyes Closed]() - [Head of St Jerome]() - [Shepherd with a Flute]() - [St Anthony Abbot and St Paul]() - [St Jerome \(detail\)]() - [St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()