Portrait of a Young Man (Giorgione, Budapest)
Portrait of a Young Man or Portrait of a Youth is a c.1508-1510 painting, attributed to Giorgione and now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Some have instead attributed it to Giorgione's collaborator Giovanni Cariani.
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The work was produced late in the artist's career, with the parapet and dark background showing the influence of Flemish models. The parapet bears the inscription "V" on a shield, possibly a symbol of the Latin word "virtus", meaning virtue or courage, and an ancient Roman cameo with a triple female head and a tiny cartouche with a near-illegible inscription. Some thus identify the work's subject as the poet Antonio Broccardo.
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