Portrait of a Man

After being ignored for decades, this recently restored painting now more clearly reveals details of style and execution that are typical of Gossaert. The sculptural quality, pose, and expressiveness of the sitter must, above all, be seen in the context of the work of the court sculptor Conrad Meit. His Head of a Man shows an almost identical approach to the way the head and torso are slightly turned in opposing directions and in the specific modeling of the face. When Gossaert was summoned to Mechelen in 1523 to restore some of Margaret of Austria's paintings, he stayed as a guest at Meit's h... Mehr ...