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TINTORETTO: Self-Portrait with a Book

🖼 Self-Portrait with a Book, c. 1585
Oil on canvas
73 × 58 cm
Florence, Italy

Caught mid-gesture, Tintoretto presents himself holding a book, rendered in dramatic chiaroscuro with penetrating gaze. This late self-portrait reveals the aging artist's intellectual ambitions and mastery of light, asserting his status as Venice's preeminent painter during the Renaissance's final decades.

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E. H. Gombrich
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