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GIORGIONE: Self-Portrait as David

GIORGIONE
🖼 Self-Portrait as David, c. 1510
Oil on canvas
52 × 43 cm
Braunschweig, Germany

Golden light bathes a young man holding Goliath's severed head, rendered with soft brushwork and introspective mood. Giorgione's rare self-portrait merges biblical heroism with Renaissance idealism, establishing the artist as both warrior and intellectual.

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E. H. Gombrich
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