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Portrait of a Gentleman

c. 1530
Oil on canvas, 118 x 105 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome

The melancholy Portrait of a Man by Lorenzo Lotto is probably the portrait of the widower, Mercurio Bua, because of the small skull surrounded by rose petals, reminiscent of a fatal confinement. However, it is assumed by some scholars that the painting represents the self-portrait of the artist.