Boy with a Greyhound
Artist: Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, 1528–1588)
Original Dimensions: 68 3/8" x 40 1/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (possibly 1570s) "This unidentified youth is a polished ideal of sixteenth-century Italian masculinity, displaying his status and virility through his gilded codpiece, sword, and finely tailored costume. Coolly steadying his greyhound, a favored breed among Italian nobility, the boy stands with confident nonchalance at the threshold of a doorway looking out onto an expansive landscape—once punctuated with a smalt blue sky that has turned gray with age. Veronese was widely recognized in his time as a portraitist of exceptional refinement and a famed painter of illusionistic frescoes. Here, he used his skills as an illusionist to create an uncanny sense that these figures are standing in the same space as the viewer." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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