Lot 21

Giacopo Palma Il Giovane (1549 - 1628) STANDING FIGURE OF A PHILOSOPHER

Giacopo Palma Il Giovane was born Jacopo di Antonio Negretti in Venice.

In the mid-1570s he returned to Venice, where his combination of naturalism and subdued Mannerism became popular. Palma’s work increasingly reflected his respect for the Venetian masters, especially Jacopo Tintoretto; after his death in 1594, Palma became the leading painter in the city. This study of a philosopher is in a pose analogical to Plato’s in Raphael’s fresco The School of Athens.