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VERONESE, Paolo: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1558-63
Oil on canvas
63 × 51 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Caught mid-gesture, a bearded man in dark robes gazes outward with measured confidence, rendered in warm earth tones against a shadowed background. Veronese's self-portrait exemplifies Renaissance mastery of psychological presence and portraiture, establishing the artist's status as a sophisticated Venetian intellect.

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