The painting, which the master completed in the 1540s, is the portrait of a mysterious man with grey eyes. Nothing is known about the person who poses so confidently and elegantly for the portrait, although theories abound. Rona Goffen, a renowned Renaissance art researcher, holds that the person is just a model, an embodiment of ideal beauty similar to the women in the countless female portraits of the era.
?The Mysterious Man? will be displayed together with other paintings from the period, with the aim of showing Titian?s place among his contemporaries.
Source: www.mult-kor.hu
