Portrait of Niccolò Orsini, Count of Pitigliano (1442-1510), XNUMXth century Tuscan painter

Tuscan painter active towards the end of the 16th century
Portrait of Captain Niccolò Orsini (Pitigliano, 1442 – Lonigo, 1510), Count of Pitigliano and Nola.

Tuscany, late 500th century
Oil on canvas, 64 x 47 cm., in frame 89 x 73 cm.
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The portrait we present shows the effigy of a vigorous high-ranking male character in armour, in the most typical Renaissance pose, half-length and taken in profile, with his face and gaze turned to the side; the serious and intense expression and facial features evoke at first glance the portraiture of early Florentine mannerism.
This is Niccolò III Orsini (Pitigliano, 1442 – Lonigo, 1510), count of Pitigliano and Nola and son of Aldobrandino Orsini, famous leader and captain of fortune who lived between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, who served for the State Papal office in Naples and Florence and above all for the Republic of Venice.
Portraiture with these characteristics, which derives from ancient coinage, was used in the sixteenth century in the sequences of Portraits of Illustrious Men, both in painting and in sculpture. In fact, the profile portrait was a genre reserved, according to Renaissance tradition, for celebrations, presenting those characteristics of imperturbability typical of the military role held.
Our painting is a work created by an author active in Tuscany towards the end of the sixteenth century, an adherent of those pictorial styles made famous by the portraitist Cristofano di Papi dell'Altissimo (1530-1605), a pupil of Bronzino and then of Pontormo, known for having created a collection of around 500 portraits of illustrious men, known as the 'Gioviana Series' (now in the Uffizi Gallery); and among these it is possible to identify one dedicated to Niccolò Orsini.
Our painting draws inspiration, in particular, from a print taken from Aliprando Caprioli's collection of prints, ''Portraits of a hundred illustrious captains'' (Rome, 1596). Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1208-746
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