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MEMLING, Hans: Portrait of a Man with a Roman Coin

🖼 Portrait of a Man with a Roman Coin, 1480 or later
Oil on oak panel
30 × 22 cm
Antwerp, Belgium

Soft brushwork renders a contemplative man holding a Roman coin, his gaze directed outward with Renaissance precision and calm dignity. The coin symbolizes classical learning and humanist values, connecting medieval Flemish portraiture to the intellectual revival reshaping Northern Europe.

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E. H. Gombrich
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