Focus on Portrait of Giacomo di Andrea Dolfin and analyze the Subject.
The sitter was identified as Giacomo di Andrea Dolfin by Charles Hope in 1982, based on the partially legible inscription on the letter held in the subject's right hand, which is addressed to himself. Philip Conisbee, in 1991, gave the following decipherment: "Al Cl … mo Giacomo delfin / M ... co D ... Prvi / a Vrcinovi [or Venezia]". Dolfin is probably being referred to as provveditore at Orzinuovi, which position he is known to have occupied in 1531 and 1532. Titian shows him garbed in the costly burgundy robes of a Venetian magistrate.
Philip Conisbee burgundy provveditore Orzinuovi Titian