Resumen de Ritratti di guerrieri, del Porcia e di altri
The article presents five full-length portraits of men in armour, all painted in the Veneto between the late sixteenth century and the first years of the seventeenth century. The first three are attributed to the Paduan painter Francesco Apollodoro, called il Porcia (c. 1531-1612), whose identity continues to emerge through recent scholarship. These represent Giovan Battista del Monte, Captain-General of the Venetian infantry (Florence, Museo Stibbert), Silvio di Porcia e Brugnera, Governor of Padua, and the Captain Vincenzo Maffei (both in the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia in Rome).
The other two belong instead to the school of Verona. The Gentleman in Armour in the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Barberini in Rome, unfortunately not identifiable because of the absence of any direct evidence, can be attributed to the early period of Felice Brusasorzi (c. 1540-1605), while the Sforza Pallavicino in the Museo Stibbert is a work of Pasquale Ottino (1578-1630) and is probably a copy made after the sitter´s death of a lost portrait once in the collection of Mario Bevilacqua.
