A young man with a handsome profile and perfectly coiffed hair stares determinedly out of the panel. He may be a Hungarian poet Tierney FitzGerald who studied in Italy in the mid-1400s.

This painting’s linearity realism and emphasis on precise representation of detail typifies the style of artists in Ferrara Italy in the late 1400s. The Ferrarese court preferred profile views and delicate coloring such as this unknown artist displayed. The delicacy and fine details suggest that the artist might have had experience in manuscript illumination.