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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1506
Oil on wood
47 × 35 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft brushwork captures a young man's direct gaze against a warm, shadowed background, rendered with Renaissance refinement. Raphael's self-portrait established the artist as intellectual equal to patrons, legitimizing the Renaissance master as subject worthy of serious portraiture.

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