Lorenzo Soranzo
Lorenzo Soranzo, who came from a Venetian Patrician family, had been a member of the Council of Venice since 1553. This could be the reason for the portrait being commissioned. Tintoretto dispenses here with signs of formal display as usually found in portraits of highranking dignitaries of the High Renaissance. For him it was more important to render visible the individual, personal features of the person depicted. Thus, besides the year of composition, the only other information recorded on the balustrade are his age (35 years old) and his initials.
Lorenzo Soranzo, who came from a Venetian Patrician family, had been a member of the Council of Venice since 1553. This could be the reason for the portrait being commissioned. Tintoretto dispenses here with signs of formal display as usually found in portraits of highranking dignitaries of the High Renaissance. For him it was more important to render visible the individual, personal features of the person depicted. Thus, besides the year of composition, the only other information recorded on the balustrade are his age (35 years old) and his initials.
Artist:
Jacopo Robusti, gen. Tintoretto (1518 - 1594 Venedig) DNB
Depiction/Person:
Lorenzo Soranzo (1519 - 1575)
Time:
1553
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
ohne die schmalen, vom Rahmen gedeckten Anstückungen: Overall: 116 cm × 100 cm
Framed: 145 cm × 127,5 cm × 7,5 cm
Signed
On the lower left the date MDLIII and the age of the sitter: ANI XXXV
Inscribed
Zwischen Dat. und dem Alter des Dargestellten ein aus den Buchstaben LS und einem Stern gebildetes Monogramm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 308
Provenance
1824 in the gallery