Portrait of Alvise Cornaro (Jacopo Tintoretto)
period print · 1560
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SUMMARY
Jacopo Tintoretto's oil portrait of Alvise (Luigi) Cornaro, painted c. 1560-1565 and held in the Galleria Palatina at the Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. 83). The identification of the sitter as Cornaro is the accepted one, carried by the holding collection and by multiple independent records (a dedicated Wikipedia entry, Wikidata Q3937458, and the Web Gallery of Art). The painting is in the public domain because Tintoretto died in 1594; the digital reproduction is from the Web Gallery of Art via Wikimedia Commons. A near-contemporary likeness of the elderly nobleman whose self-reported great age was the chief evidence for his doctrine.
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The actor portrait for the Cornaro case. Tintoretto painted Cornaro late in the sitter’s life, within a few years of the first gathered edition of the Discorsi (Padua, 1558), so the likeness is roughly contemporary with the doctrine. The identification as Cornaro is the accepted one across the holding museum and multiple independent records, which satisfies the archive’s source-title rule. The work is long out of copyright (Tintoretto died 1594); this archive uses the Web Gallery of Art reproduction held on Wikimedia Commons.