Portrait of a Young Man (Botticelli, London)

Portrait of a Young Man is a small tempera-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, painted around 1483 and held by the National Gallery in London. It broke with the convention of Italian portraiture at the time, which typically showed a sitter in profile or at a three-quarter turn, by presenting its unidentified young Florentine subject facing directly forward. The panel was at different times attributed to Giorgione and Filippino Lippi, and even believed to be a self-portrait by Masaccio, before scholars settled on Botticelli as its author and recognized it as his only known portrait painted in this frontal, en face format. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/