This classical oil painting of an Italian Renaissance Man was created as one of a four portrait series made during Leah's time studying the sight-size technique at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy over the summer of 2024.  The sight size method is a portrait technique that traces its roots back to Titian and Van Dyck, later popularized by the great artist John Singer Sargent and his contemporaries. This technique requries the artist to place the image and subject side by side at a distance in order to perceive the whole scene in it's entirety. It was through the study of this technique that Leah witnessed her skills at portraiture increase by dramatic leaps and bounds. She considers this, in addition to the three other pieces painted during her time in Florence, to be some of her best portrait work to date. 
 
When painting her model, Alessandro, Leah imagined him to be an Italian gentleman in the prime of his rogue-ish youth during the Renaissance. His beauty, charm, and charisma opens all doors, and he knows how to wield them with ease. The life and draw of any gathering, A Renaissance Rogue depicts the allure of masculine confidence and beauty.