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PERUGINO, Pietro: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1497-1500
Fresco
40 × 31 cm
Perugia, Italy

Soft brushwork renders a Renaissance master in three-quarter view, his gaze direct and dignified against a luminous background. Perugino's self-portrait documents the artist's refined technique and elevated status in early 16th-century Italy, establishing the model for scholarly self-representation.

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