COLUMBUS MONUMENTS PAGES

Portraits of Christopher Columbus

No portrait painted during Columbus's lifetime appears to have survived, but scores of later artists rendered their Columbuses.

Click on the face to see the full painting and information about it!

The Jovian portrait (1520s)	Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer (1557) after the Jovian portrait.	Painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (1519)	Engraving by Jean de Bry (15..) after Piombo's portrait
Portrait by Lorenzo Lotto, 1512.	Painting, attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.	Unknown artist.	Portrait-medal, attributed to Guido Mazzoni.
Fresco by Federico Zuccari.	Portrait by Pedro Berruguete.

Paul Martin Lester used morphing technology to produce a composite portrait of Christopher Columbus. This resulted in the portrait below.

Composite portrait of Columbus, by Paul Martin Lester, 1993

This page and its subsequent pages - except the Berruguete portrait - are based on:

Paul Martin Lester, Looks Are Deceiving: the Portraits of Christopher Columbus, Originally published in Visual Anthropology, Vol. 5, pp. 211-227 C1993 Harwood Academic Publishers GmbH; click here for the WWW-version.
National Geographic, Vol. 148, No. 5 (November 1975), pp. 618-619.
See also
- the website of Jean-Michel Urvoy, L'Amiral de la Mer Océane, Portraits de Colomb (in French)