''Man with a Red Hat'' is a

tempera Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done ...

on panel painting attributed to Italian Renaissance painter

Vittore Carpaccio Vittore Carpaccio ( UK: /kɑːrˈpætʃ(i)oʊ/, US: /-ˈpɑːtʃ-/, Italian: itˈtoːre karˈpattʃo c. 1460/66 – 1525/26) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who studied under Gentile Bellini. Carpaccio was largely influence ...

, created around 1490–1493. It is housed in the

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The attribution to Carpaccio is disputed. Bartolomeo Montagna and

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpieces, religiou ...

have been also proposed as artists responsible for the piece, while others have assigned it to an unknown master from

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. The dating is less controversial, having been assigned to the early 1490s, when Carpaccio was painting the ''

Legend of Saint Ursula The ''Legend of Saint Ursula'' (Italian: ''Storie di sant'Orsola'') is a series of large wall-paintings on canvas by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio, commissioned by the Loredan family and originally created for the Scuol ...

'' and other cycles in Venice, and personal portraits of noblemen were becoming common. The painting depicts an unknown man's face and (partially) bust, above a landscape background. The latter includes a lake, a portion of countryside and mountains, partially hidden by a far haze.

Sources

* 1490s paintings Paintings by Vittore Carpaccio Collection of the Museo Correr Portraits of men {{15C-painting-stub