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LOTTO, Lorenzo: Portrait of Laura da Pola

🖼 Portrait of Laura da Pola, 1544
Oil on canvas
90 × 75 cm
Milan, Italy

Soft light models a young woman's face in three-quarter view, her jeweled hand gesturing expressively against dark drapery. Lotto captures psychological immediacy and emotional presence rare in 16th-century portraiture, elevating the genre beyond mere likeness.

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E. H. Gombrich
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