Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese explained

Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese is a heavily-damaged 1546 oil on canvas painting of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma by Titian, now in Room 2 of the National Museum of Capodimonte.[1]

It was produced on the artist's return to Venice from Rome in 1546. Its subject was a son of Pope Paul III, dressed in the armour and accoutrements of a papal gonfaloniere. He was stabbed to death in 1547 in a plot instigated by the Landi and Anguissola families on the advice of the duke of Milan Ferrante I Gonzaga.[2]

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References

  1. Book: Museo di Capodimonte. Utili. Mariella. Spinosa. Nicola. 2002. Touring Editore. 9788836525775. 24. it.
  2. Web site: Descrizione del dipinto . it . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117014529/http://cir.campania.beniculturali.it/museodicapodimonte/itinerari-tematici/galleria-di-immagini/OA900151 . 17 November 2015 . dead . 2018-10-23.