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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Portrait of Dona Isabel de Requesens, Vice-Queen of Naples

🖼 Portrait of Dona Isabel de Requesens, Vice-Queen of Naples, 1518
Oil on wood transferred to canvas
120 × 95 cm
Paris, France

Soft brushwork renders an elegant woman in three-quarter view, her jeweled dress and composed expression conveying aristocratic authority. This portrait exemplifies High Renaissance ideals of grace and power, establishing the visual language for depicting noble female leadership in 16th-century Europe.

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E. H. Gombrich
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