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TINTORETTO: Portrait of a Man (fragment)

🖼 Portrait of a Man (fragment), c. 1548
Oil on canvas (on wood)
44 × 39 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Dramatic chiaroscuro illuminates a man's face against dark drapery, rendered with Tintoretto's characteristic bold brushwork and psychological intensity. The fragment reveals Renaissance portraiture's shift toward introspection and individualism, capturing personality through light and shadow rather than idealized detail.

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E. H. Gombrich
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