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VERONESE, Paolo: Portrait of a Young Man Wearing Lynx Fur

🖼 Portrait of a Young Man Wearing Lynx Fur, 1551-53
Oil on canvas
120 × 102 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Luxurious lynx fur drapes across the subject's shoulders in soft brushwork, contrasting with his composed gaze and Renaissance elegance. Veronese captures Venetian aristocratic wealth and refinement through sumptuous textures and psychological presence, defining portraiture's power to convey both status and character.

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E. H. Gombrich
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