Autore
Molaro, Paolo

Titolo
Sull'autoritratto di Galileo = Galileo's Self-Portrait
Periodico
Il colle di Galileo
Anno: 2016 - Volume: 1 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 51 - Pagina finale: 69

Before becoming the great scientist that everyone knows and the founding father of modern science, the young Galileo Galilei was nurtured within a typically Renaissance context, acquiring a marked artistic sensibility which transpires in his literary style and even in his scientific work. Galileo was indeed a musician, an intellectual and also a painter, as consensually recorded in his first biographies and as illustrated by watercolours of his first observations of the Moon and his drawings of the sunspots. However there is also a somewhat astonishing reference to the existence of an actual self-portrait, as recorded by Thomas Salusbury (1664) in what continues to be the first biography of Galileo to have been published. Recently a possible new youthful portrait of Galileo Galilei has been proposed. The remarkable similarity of this new portrait with those of Domenico Tintoretto (circa 1604), Santi di Tito (1601, via Calendi) and Furini (1612) has recently been confirmed using sophisticated face recognition techniques (Srinivasan et al 2015, Rudolph et al 2015). Were the identity to be definitively ascertained, other elements which emerged from the infrared analysis of the painting – such as the young age or the restitched canvas – would appear to suggest a connection with the very work mentioned by Thomas Salusbury.



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