Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune [SEP] creator
Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune
The Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune (Italian: "Ritratto di Andrea Doria in veste di Nettuno") is an oil painting on canvas completed by Bronzino for a private collection in either the 1530s or 1540s. It is now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy. An oil painting on canvas, it measures by . In a conscious revival of the convention in classical sculpture of showing important political figures in heroic nudity, it depicts the Genoan admiral, Andrea Doria, posing
shaped spout, topped by a bronze statue of Neptune holding a trident in one hand, with the other hand resting on an escutcheon containing the Wignacourt coat of arms. The statue is based on the "Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune". Doria was an Italian Admiral of the Order of St John, praised for his role during sea battles against the Ottomans. The marble of the spout has a Latin inscription which says:
The statue was most likely sculpted by Leone Leoni in 1584. Other sources attribute it to