Hieronymus Fracastorius (Fracastoro). Oil painting.

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 24.2 x 18 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/22/35

Hieron. Fracastorius med. phil.

Jill Dunkerton, Jennifer Fletcher and Paul Joannides, 'A portrait of "Girolamo Fracastoro" by Titian in the National Gallery', The Burlington Magazine, January 2013, 155: 4-15

Wellcome Collection 45618i

Possibly after the portrait in the Uffizi (Gli Uffizi: catalogo generale, Florence 1979, p. 630, canvas 60 x 45 cm., ca. 1600, entered the Uffizi in 1721, sitter facing left, inscribed Hiero.us Fracastorus). Differences in the portrayal may be due to overpainting in the face of the present portrait

According to Dunkerton et al., op. cit., the Uffizi portrait may be derived from the woodcut portrait in Fracastoro's Homocentricorum sive de stellis (Venice 1535 according to Dunkerton et al. fig. 13, p. 11, ); though Pennuto refers to "L'Homocentricorum sive de stellis liber unus, pubblicato da Fracastoro nel 1538" (Concetta Pennuto, Simpatia, fantasia e contagio: il pensiero medico e il pensiero filosofico di Girolamo Fracastoro, Roma 2008, p. 71). That 1538 edition has on its title page no place and no publisher; has the title"Hieronymi Fracastorii Homocentrica", not "Homocentricorum ... libellus unus"; and the copy in Google Books has no portrait. Again following Dunkerton et al. (p. 12), that woodcut portrait may in turn be derived from a portrait of Fracastoro (otherwise lost) which Vasari says was painted by Giovanni Caroto