Ambition

From the series Remember me

Unknown man, Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430–1479), Sicilië(?), 1476. Museo Civico d'Arte Antica Palazzo Madama, Turijn.

As the 15th century progressed, cities grew, international trade flourished, and a wealthy civil elite emerged that could afford to commission portraits – they were self-confident, and they were keen to show it.

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