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Tullio Lombardo's Ca' d'Oro Relief: A Self-Portrait with the Artist's Wife?

1989; College Art Association; Volume: 71; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00043079.1989.10788496

1559-6478

Alison Lucks,

Historical and Religious Studies of Rome

Francesco Colonna based a woodcut illustration for his Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499, showing the tomb monument of a bridal couple, on the double-portrait relief by Tullio Lombardo now at the Ca' d'Oro, Venice. The name Colonna chose for the bridegroom, Sertullius, raises the possibility that the subject of the Ca' d'Oro relief is also “Ser Tullius,” that is, Tullio Lombardo, and his wife. Further support for this suggestion comes from the relief's similarity to the self-portrait engraving of Israhel van Meckenem with his wife; from the form of the inscription on Tullio's relief; and from connections with other contemporary North Italian portraits of artists and humanists. The relief's purpose may have been bridal, commemorative, or both.