Caravaggio's Portrait of a Gentleman with a Ruff

A close look at Caravaggio’s Portrait of a Gentleman with a Ruff, a recent arrival in the Klesch Collection. Text in English and Italian.

Caravaggio’s Portrait of a Gentleman with a Ruff, which is a recent arrival in the Klesch Collection, has a short critical history. It also has a very limited history as regards the associated bibliography and media coverage, perhaps because the painting came to the fore prior to the social media explosion characteristic of recent years and, above all, at ...