# Portrait of a Young Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PENNI, Giovan Francesco]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel ## Commentary Curiously few portraits painted by Raphael's students between the premature death of their master, on 6 April 1520, and the Sack of Rome in 1527, have survived. No evidence remains of portraits painted by Giulio Romano in Rome after Raphael's death, even though Giulio excelled in this genre. The only artist from Raphael's studio who left portraits made during this period is the Florentine Giovan Francesco Penni. These portraits have the refinement that characterizes the works executed during the early reign of Pope Clement VII \[reigned 1523-1534\]. The sitter for the present painting did not belong to the Roman aristocracy and could not be portrayed as such; thus, the artist opted for a more austere presentation that was more appropriate for a figure from the bourgeoisie. ## Related artworks - [Design for the funerary monument of Francesco Gonzaga]() - [Head of a Young Man]() - [Holy Family with the Infant St John]() - [Jacob's Dream]() - [Madonna del Divino Amore \(Madonna of Divine Love\)]() - [Madonna with the Blue Diadem]() - [Portrait of Clement I with the Features of Leo X]() - [The Battle at Pons Milvius]() - [The Holy Family of the Book]() - [Toilet of Venus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()