Self portrait as Abbot of the Accademia della Val di Blenio, by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, 1568 about, 16th Century, oil on canvas, cm 56 x 44. Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Brera Art Gallery. All. A bearded man with an ambiguous smile wears the typical outfit of the Accademia members a golden seal, representing a galleon and decorated with vine leaves, is pinned to the broad brimmed straw hat he wears a kidskin as a cloak mantle, an ivy wrapped thyrsus and a crown of laurel and vine leaves (the attribute of a poet). He wears a showy ring on his finger and holds compasses calipers and a canvas by its rear side (the attributes of a painter) in his hand.