Portrait of a young Venetian man

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/178 · 1522

The case shows that artworks not only included Greek quotations from classical literature and the Bible, but could also convey more basic information about their creation. Here the painter added the date and his name to the lower part of the portrait (transl. “1522, August the 28th, Victor’s handwork”). The use of Greek in the inscription enhances the painter's image as a pictor doctus (learned painter).