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Doge Niccolò Marcello

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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The unusual horn-shaped cap and sumptuous silk robes identify this man as a doge, the elected ruler of Venice. We can‘t be sure who he is, but he has been identified in the past as Doge Niccolò Marcello, who was in power briefly from 1473 to 1474. A medal (Bode Museum, Berlin) inscribed with Marcello’s name shows a man with the same bulbous nose and forward-leaning posture as this portrait’s sitter; some have used this to identify him.

It might be a copy of the image of Doge Marcello from the frieze of doges’ portraits in the Doge’s Palace that Gentile Bellini made for the sala del consiglio (state council room) which was destroyed by fire in 1577. The image must have been well-known as Titian made a version of it in the 1540s (now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican, Rome).

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Doge Niccolò Marcello

Date

after 1474

Medium

Oil on wood

Measurements

H 62.2 x W 45.1 cm

Accession number

NG3100

Acquisition method

Layard Bequest, 1916

Work type

Painting

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