Creator

Vittore di Giovanni (?)

Creation-date

1522

Technique

Painting

Material

Oil on wood

Inventory number

-

Subject-1

Venetian Renaissance

Object-Current-Location

Venice, Palazzo Giustiniani Recanati alle Zattere

Digital resource author

GrECI Project

Digital-resource-rights holder

University of Oslo (for GrECI project)

Image-number

031_Id_6

License

CC BY

Description

The case shows that artworks not only included Greek quotations from classical literature and the Bible, but could also convey more basic information about their creation. Here the painter added the date and his name to the lower part of the portrait (transl. “1522, August the 28th, Victor’s handwork”). The use of Greek in the inscription enhances the painter's image as a pictor doctus (learned painter).