Portrait of Folco Portinari

Portrait of Folco Portinari
Portrait of Folco Portinari
Artist	Hans Memling
Year	c. 1490
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	35 cm × 25 cm (14 in × 9.8 in)
Location	Uffizi Gallery, Florence

The Portrait of Folco Portinari is a painting by the German painter Hans Memling, dating to c. 1490. It is displayed in the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence.

History

The painting, for a period, was attributed to Antonello da Messina. It is documented for the first time at the Uffizi in 1863, assigned to an anonymous Flemish artist. Later, together with three other paintings in the gallery (Portrait of Benedetto Portinari, Portrait of an Unknown Man in a Landscape and Man with a Letter), the painting was attributed to Memling due to its high quality. Of the four, the portrait of Folco Portinari is considered the latest to have been painted.^[1]

Folco Portinari, a descendant of the Folco Portinari who founded the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, was a nephew of Tommaso Portinari, a Medici banker in Bruges. A list of leading Italians in Bruges in August 1498 is headed by Hieronimo Frescobaldi, followed by the banker Cornelio Atoviti, Folco Portinari, Jacobo Palazzoni (factor to Bernardo Rucellai), Oberto Spinola (representative of Batista Ricardini), and Baptista Spinola.^[2]^[3]

References and sources

^ polomuseale
^ Storia di Soncino con documenti opera di Francesco Galantino, vol. 3 (Milano, 1870), p. 328
^ Federica Veratelli, À la mode italienne: Commerce du luxe et diplomatie dans les Pays-Bas meridionaux, 1477–1530 (Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2013).

Sources

Galleria degli Uffizi. Rome: Scala. 2003.

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[2] Storia di Soncino con documenti opera di Francesco Galantino, vol. 3 (Milano, 1870), p. 328

[3] Federica Veratelli, À la mode italienne: Commerce du luxe et diplomatie dans les Pays-Bas meridionaux, 1477–1530 (Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2013).

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Polyptychs	Last Judgment, c. 1467–1471 Diptych of an elderly couple, c. 1470–1472 Diptych of Jean de Cellier, c. 1475 Jan Floreins Altarpiece, 1479 St John Altarpiece, 1479 Adoration of the Magi, c. 1479–1480 Adriaan Reins Altarpiece, 1480 Donne Triptych, c. 1480 Moreel Triptych, 1484 Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation, c. 1485 Benedetto Portinari Triptych, 1487 Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove, 1487 St. Ursula Shrine, c. 1489 Christ Surrounded by Singing and Music-making Angels, c. 1483–1494
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