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Alvise Cornaro, a scholar of a noble family that lived most of his life in Padua, wrote treatises and patroned a small court of scientists and scholars. In one of his works, he praised the "sober life." In fact, Tintoretto, in portraying him, emphasized the range of his cultural interests and underlined by his more human aspects through a measured agreement of greys and blacks (the darkness of the background and his clothes) that make his face and hands stand out. 
The portrait subject is seated, at half figure, and facing to the right. The right hand, resting on the armrest, displays a sign of nobility—a ring with a stone. He gazes absently out of the canvas, while his face displays his age, accentuated by the deep black shadows dug out of his cheeks and temples.
Alvise Cornaro Tintoretto Padua