Portrait of a boy

The youth is dressed in a dark black garment with a thin white rim at the neck, standing behind a dark ledge where his hands are partially visible. Behind him, a tranquil landscape unfolds with slender trees, a body of water, and distant blue hills under a bright sky.

Piero di Cosimo was an idiosyncratic Florentine artist active during the peak of Neoplatonic influence; this portrait reflects the period's focus on the human face as a mirror of the individual soul, an idea popularized by Marsilio Ficino.