Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder of the Medici family (including, possibly, Cosimo de' Medici himself) or, as he personally felt more likely, Antonio Botticelli, Botticelli's brother. This, he asserts, is based on the strength of the likeness of the youth to Botticelli himself, as portrayed in his "Adoration of the Magi". Antonio Botticelli had also recast and gilded medals, working in the court of the Medicis. However, he would have been about 40 at the time of the portrait. Frederick Hartt suggested it might be Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici ("Il Poplano", 1463–1503), whose two certain portraits, both profiles on medals, vary considerably, though one
Adoration of the Magi (Perugino, Perugia) Adoration of the Magi (Perugino, Perugia) The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Pietro Perugino, housed in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria of Perugia, Italy. According to Italian art historian Vittoria Garibaldi, it was one of the earliest commissions received by Perugino around the end of his apprenticeship in Florence (1472), while others date it to the late 1470s. The painting was originally executed for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Perugia, connected to the Baglioni family; in 1543 it was moved to the church of Santa Maria Nuova in the same city.