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MEMLING, Hans: Portrait of Jacques of Savoy

🖼 Portrait of Jacques of Savoy, 1470s
Oil on oak panel
34.7 × 25 cm
Basel, Switzerland

Soft light models the sitter's contemplative face in three-quarter view, rendered with meticulous detail characteristic of Flemish portraiture. Jacques of Savoy's dignified bearing and precise naturalism exemplify the Northern Renaissance's revolutionary approach to individual likeness and psychological presence.

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