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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Portrait of a Woman (La Muta)

🖼 Portrait of a Woman (La Muta), 1507
Oil on wood
64 × 48 cm
Urbino, Italy

Soft brushwork captures a woman's enigmatic pause, her lips parted as if about to speak, rendered against austere background. Renaissance mastery of psychological portraiture reaches its peak—her silence becomes more expressive than words, establishing the prototype for introspective portraiture.

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