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PONTORMO, Jacopo: Study for a Portrait of a Youth (recto)

🖼 Study for a Portrait of a Youth (recto), c. 1525
Black chalk with white highlights
332 × 211 cm
Florence, Italy

Delicate line work captures a youth's contemplative gaze, rendered in quick, searching strokes that reveal the artist's working process. This preparatory study exemplifies Mannerism's psychological intensity, prioritizing emotional presence over anatomical precision.

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