Portrait d'Iseppo da Porto et de son fils Adriano

In the early 1550s Andrea Palladio was building the da Porto family a new palace in Vicenza, and Veronese was among the painters brought in to fresco its rooms. This portrait comes out of that same world. Count Iseppo da Porto stands with a protective hand on his eldest son Adriano, one of seven children. The picture had a twin: Iseppo's wife Livia with their daughter Porzia, so that father and son once faced mother and daughter across a room. The two canvases were separated long ago. Livia and Porzia are now in Baltimore, while Iseppo and Adriano stayed in Italy and hang in Florence, on long-term loan to the Uffizi from the Contini Bonacossi collection.