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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Portrait of a Clean-Shaven Young Man

🖼 Portrait of a Clean-Shaven Young Man, c. 1500
Oil and tempera on wood
46 × 33 cm
Kronberg, Australia

Rendered with precise detail, the young man's smooth face and fashionable cap dominate this intimate portrait against a dark ground. Cranach's work exemplifies Northern Renaissance portraiture's shift toward individualized character study and bourgeois patronage in early 16th-century Germany.

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