Vienna museum attributes the face in a portrait of an elderly man to Bernini
The Kunsthistorisches Museum attributed the face in Portrait of an Old Man to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The work had previously been listed as an anonymous Roman painting. Technical examination indicated two hands, and the museum’s curator proposed that a collaborator painted the lower part.
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