This portrait by Bordone probably dates from before 1530, making it one of the most important surviving early full-lengths in Italian art. Facing the spectator, with his head turned half to the left and his gloved right hand on his hip, the sitter wears a short black coat over a quilted and pleated doublet with black hose. The painting was at one time thought to be a self-portrait by Giorgione, and contains a number of spurious details. The halo, the palm frond in the sitter’s left hand the quiver of arrows on the floor are all later additions, which appear to have been added to transform the picture into an image of Saint Sebastian. The laurel-wreath and stem of the false palm, however, are part of the original painting, suggesting that it may have originally been a portrait of a poet.