Portrait of a Man
by CARNEVALE, Fra, Tempera on wood, 35 x 27 cm
This painting is one of the three portraits that have been ascribed to Fra Carnevale. If the attribution correct then it documents the artist’s transformation into an exponent of a North Italian courtly style; there is, indeed, no hint of the Florentine training with Filippo Lippi we know Fra Carnevale to have received.
The portrait reads as a marble relief to which colour has been added.