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MANTEGNA, Andrea: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1504-06
Bronze, height 47 cm
Mantua, Italy

Fierce intensity radiates from sharp features rendered in terracotta tones, the artist's gaze direct and unflinching. Mantegna's self-portrait in the Mantuan chapel asserts the Renaissance claim that painters rank among intellectual elites, not mere craftsmen.

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