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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Double Portrait

🖼 Double Portrait, 1518
Oil on canvas
90 × 83 cm
Paris, France

Soft brushwork renders two young men in intimate proximity, their gazes meeting in psychological intensity. Raphael's psychological portraiture revolutionized Renaissance art by capturing unspoken connection and individual character through masterful sfumato technique.

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