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CARRACCI, Annibale: Self-Portrait in Profile

🖼 Self-Portrait in Profile, 1590s
Oil on canvas
Florence, Italy

Profile view captures the artist in sharp relief against neutral background, rendered in precise charcoal or chalk. Carracci's introspective self-examination established the Renaissance tradition of artists documenting their own visages for posterity and artistic study.

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