page_title: Lombardy
section_title: Other sights
hierarchical_section_title: Lombardy / Culture / Other sights
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of a Musician is an unfinished portrait painting widely attributed to Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci, dated c. 1485–1490. Painted in oil on a walnut wood panel, it is Leonardo's only known male portrait, whose identity is unknown, and has been closely debated among scholars. Until the 20th century it was thought to depict Ludovico Sforza, a Duke of Milan and employer of Leonardo. During a 1904–1905 restoration, the removal of overpainting revealed a hand holding sheet music, indicated that the sitter may be a musician. This version is from the website of the Ambrosiana, the museum that house it, and has darker and more realistic tones that are not sacrificed by the flash of a camera.
context_page_description: Lombardy is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of 23,844 square kilometres. About 10 million people live in Lombardy, forming more than one-sixth of Italy's population, and more than a fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in the region, making it the most populous, richest and most productive region in the country. It is also one of the top regions in Europe for the same criteria. Milan's metropolitan area is the largest in Italy and the third most populated functional urban area in the EU. Lombardy is also the Italian region with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites—Italy having the highest number of World Heritage Sites in the world. The region is also famous for its historical figures such as Virgil, Pliny the Elder, Ambrose, Caravaggio, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Stradivari, Cesare Beccaria, Alessandro Volta, Alessandro Manzoni, and popes John XXIII and Paul VI.
context_section_description: Cathedral of Milan
  Castello Sforzesco, Milan
  Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
  Teatro alla Scala, Milan
  Basilica of San Lorenzo, Milan
  Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, Milan
  Brera Gallery, Milan
  Bellagio
  Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
  Santa Maria Maggiore and Cappella Colleoni, Bergamo
  The fortified Venetian walls, Bergamo
  Roman and Longobard monuments in Brescia
  Duomo Nuovo, Brescia
  Castelseprio archaeological site
  Certosa di Pavia
  Como Cathedral and Basilica of Sant'Abbondio, Como
  Duomo and Torrazzo, Cremona
  Lake Como
  Lake Garda
  Lake Iseo
  Tempio Civico della Beata Vergine Incoronata, Lodi
  Royal Villa of Monza
  San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro and San Michele Maggiore, Pavia
  Villa Toeplitz, Varese
caption: The Portrait of a Musician, oil on wood painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
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