Shown from the waist up, an older, pale-skinned man wearing clerical robes gestures to our right with one hand and turns his head to look off to our left in this vertical portrait painting.

Cardinal Pietro Bembo

Titian (Italian, 1490–1576)

Date
1539/1540
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
37¼ × 30 in (94.5 × 76.5 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1952.5.28. See the museum’s record
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 1.2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Cardinal Pietro Bembo: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.