Portrait of a Man in Armor
Artist
Paris Bordon
Italian, 1500–1571
Datecirca 1535–1540
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
Frame: 44 3/4 x 38 x 3 1/2 in. (113.7 x 96.5 x 8.9 cm)
Frame: 44 3/4 x 38 x 3 1/2 in. (113.7 x 96.5 x 8.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.148
On View
Not on viewA. Venturi, Storia dell' arte italiana: IX La pittura del Cinquecento, iii (1925-34), 1032.
Exhibition of Italian Paintings of the Late Renaissance and Baroque Period (exhibition catalogue) (Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1936), cat. no. 3.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 178, illus. (b-w).
William R. Valentiner, "The Raleigh Museum's First 220 Paintings: notes on the collection," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 46-55, 91-92.
Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 40, illus.
Bernard Berenson, Italian Paintings of the Renaissance: The Venetian School (London: The Phaidon Press, 1957), 48.
Giordana Canova, Paris Bordon (Venice, Edizione Alfieri, 1964), 110, illus. fig. 78.
Terisio Pignatti, The Golden Century of Venetian Painting (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980), cat. no. 24, illus. (color) 83.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 189.
Jane Martineau and Charles Hope, eds., The Genius of Venice: 1500-1600 (exhibition catalogue) (London: Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1983), cat. no. P18, illus.
Pans Bordon e il suo tempo. Atti del Convegno internazionale de studi (Treviso, 1985), [pp.?].
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 175.
Paola Rossi, "I ritratti di Jacopo Tintoretto," in Jacopo Tintoretto Ritratti (exhibition catalogue) (Venice, Gallerie dell' Accademia, 1994), 15, 36 no. 14 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Ida Sinkevic, ed., Knights in Shining Armor: Myth and Reality, 1450-1650 (Piermont, NH: Bunker Hill Publishing in association with Allentown Art Museum, 2006), illus. (color) front cover.
Andrea Donati, Paris Bordone (Soncino: Edizioni dei Soncino, 2014), cat. no. 183, illus. (b-w) 386 and (color) 159.
Exhibition HistoryPortland, OR, The Portland Museum of Art, "Exhibition of Italian Paintings of the Late Renaissance and Baroque Period," December 4-31, 1936, cat. no. 3.
Raleigh, NC, The North Carolina Governor's Mansion, December 1-7, 1966.
Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 30, 1979- January 27,1980, "The Golden Century of Venetian Painting," cat. no. 24, illus. (color) 83.
London, The Royal Academy of Art, "The Genius of Venice: 1500-1600," November 25, 1983 - March 11, 1984, cat. no. P18, illus.
Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, "Arms and Armor in Renaissance and Baroque Art," January 28-June 17, 2007.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–July 8, 2024.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Venice and the Ottoman Empire," September 28, 2024-January 5, 2025. Object Rights Statement
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Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, called Fra Galgario
circa 1720–1730
