Mino da Fiesole

Portrait of Mino da Fiesole, metalpoint with white gouache on blue-grey prepared paper cut to an oval, Chatsworth House. Subject identified based on the similarity to the woodcut illustration in the Lives of Vasari, for which it is a probable source. Alfred Scharf's attribution of the drawing to Filippino Lippi has been generally accepted.[1]

Mino da Fiesole (c. 1429 – July 11, 1484), also known as Mino di Giovanni, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Poppi, Tuscany. He is noted for his portrait busts.

  1. ^ George R. Goldner, "Portrait of a Man Looking Down (Mino da Fiesole)," cat. no. 20, in G.R. Goldner et al., The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, p. 136.