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TINTORETTO: Portrait of Procurator Antonio Cappello

🖼 Portrait of Procurator Antonio Cappello, c. 1551
Oil on canvas
114 × 80 cm
Venice, Italy

Rendered in rich browns and golds, an elderly dignitary sits austere against shadowed drapery, his gaze penetrating. Tintoretto captures the Venetian procurator's authority through psychological intensity rather than flattery, establishing portraiture as psychological insight rather than mere likeness.

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E. H. Gombrich
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