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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Portrait of a Young Woman (La Fornarina)

🖼 Portrait of a Young Woman (La Fornarina), 1518-19
Oil on wood
85 × 60 cm
Rome, Italy

Warm golden light bathes a woman's direct gaze, her Renaissance dress rendered in luminous oils with masterful sfumato. Raffaello captures intimate presence and sensuality, establishing the portrait as a benchmark for ideal feminine beauty and psychological depth in Renaissance art.

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