“Portrait of a Young Man” was painted during the Mannerism period by Agnolo Bronzino in 1540. The portrait is 37 5/8 by 29 ˝ inches while the frame cuts the shapes in the painting; this was done purposely in the typical Mannerism style which usually crowded the pictorial area. The medium in which the painting is done in is oil on wood; in which opaque oil paints were applied thickly on to the canvas with a fine brush. On the other end of the spectrum Rembrandt Van Rijn a painter from the baroque period has done a painting titled “Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer” which was completed in 1653, and has dimensions of 143.5 by 136.5 cm, and is done on a canvas using oil paints. Although these two painting are from two different periods
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