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LEONARDO da Vinci: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, c. 1512
Red chalk on paper
333 × 213 cm
Turin, Italy

As one of the few surviving self-portraits from the Renaissance, it offers an intimate glimpse into how Leonardo saw himself—not as a celebrated artist, but as an intellectual consumed by curiosity and insight. The work's psychological depth and technical mastery exemplify the profound humanism that defined Italian Renaissance portraiture at its height.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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