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Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), author of the historical-cultural synthesis found in the book of 1860, The Culture of the Renaissance in Italy, elaborates, in the 1880s and 1890s, a study on Italian Renaissance painting, whose result is a set of texts, published posthumously. Part of this project, the volume on portrait in the painting presents a renewed look of the author about Venetian art compared to the vision of Venice presented in the book of 1860. This article proposes an analysis of the place occupied by portrait in Venetian painting and its role in Burckhardt's work on the Italian Renaissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]