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MANTEGNA, Andrea: Portrait of a Man

🖼 Portrait of a Man, 1470-75
Black chalk on discoloured grayish brown paper
342 × 250 cm
Besançon, France

Austere profile against dark background captures a Renaissance gentleman with classical precision, rendered in sharp lines and cool tonality. Mantegna's portrait exemplifies Northern Italian humanist ideals, merging antique coin portraiture with contemporary psychological insight.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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