Portrait of a Young Man (Rosso Fiorentino)

Portrait of a Young Man is an oil on wood painting by Rosso Fiorentino, executed c. 1517–1518, now in the Gemäldegalerie, in Berlin.

[1][2] In his Lives of the Artists Vasari briefly mentions that many portraits by him could still be seen in Florentine homes, probably produced before Rosso left for Volterra in 1521 - this work is thought to be one of them.

Its attribution was uncertain until 2006, when Antonio Natali identified it as an early autograph work by Rosso.

[3] In the early 1900s it was thought to be a self-portrait of Rosso, but other sources argue that it instead shows Iacopo V Appiani, sovereign of Piombino, and is linked to Rosso's long stay in the city-state of Piombino in 1516–1520, during which he produced a Dead Christ.

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