Due Proposte per un Rubens Inedito. Analisi diagnostiche e commenti critici sul Ritratto d'uomo con gorgiera

Attraverso l’analisi comparata dei dati ottenuti per mezzo di diversi metodi di indagine – dalla critica stilistica e iconografica alla ricerca diagnostica – il saggio propone l’attribuzione a Pieter Paul Rubens di un dipinto, finora inedito, raffigurante un Ritratto d’uomo con gorgiera.Thanks to the findings reached through different methods of historical as well as scientific and technological investigation – from the analysis of style and iconography to the research of the many peculiarities regarding the painting’s technique – the essay provides a new attribution to Pieter Paul Rubens, thus suggesting to include within the master’s catalogue the – never published before – Portrait of a Man with Ruff, belonging to a private collection in Rome, Italy. The essay suggests also the identification of the sitter with young Archiduke Albert VII of Habsburg: a man who would become, a few years later, one of Rubens’ most promising and consistent patrons