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Portrait of Francisco de los Cobos y Molina

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Artist · 1478–1532

Jan Gossaert's journey to Italy in 1508 with Philip of Burgundy led to a revolution in Netherlandish art because he brought home new painting ideas and a new trend. For the next 150 years, Flemish painters regularly visited Italy, often adopting an Italianate style of painting. Gossaert's version of the style married Flemish figures with Italianized architectural elements and classical poses. Roya

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Date: about 1530–1532
Medium: Oil on oak panel
Culture: Netherlandish
Department: Paintings
Institution: Getty Museum

Francesco de los Cobos y Molina, the powerful secretary and chief financial advisor to Emperor Charles V, poses in front of a swath of drapery, looking warily out at the viewer. Previously unidentified, two clues have led to Francesco's identification as the portrait's subject: the red cross emblazoned on his doublet and the gem-encrusted jewel in the shape of a scallop shell. Both are emblems of the chivalric Order of Santiago, Saint James the Greater. As an artist to several courts, Jan Gossaert traveled widely throughout Europe and became one of the first painters to disseminate the Italian Renaissance style in the Netherlands. In this painting, Gossaert combines psychological insight, keen observation of form, and a facility for imitating surface textures to create a portrait that is both imposing and believable.

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