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PERUGINO, Pietro: Portrait of a Young Man

🖼 Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1500
Oil on canvas transferred from panel
45 × 26 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Soft light models a youth's contemplative face against a luminous landscape, rendered with Perugino's characteristic delicate brushwork and sfumato. This portrait exemplifies early Renaissance ideals of beauty and virtue, establishing the psychological depth that would influence portraiture for centuries.

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