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MANTEGNA, Andrea: Portrait of Carlo de‘ Medici

🖼 Portrait of Carlo de‘ Medici, 1460-66
Tempera on wood
41 × 30 cm
Florence, Italy

Sharp light models the young subject's profile against dark background, rendered with Mantegna's precise linear technique. This portrait exemplifies Renaissance humanist values, capturing individual character through meticulous detail and establishing the profile format as crucial to Florentine portraiture.

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