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Portrait of a Man in Profile  1525

by Italian Painter

This enigmatic portrait is difficult to place geographically and has few, if any, stylistic parallels. It was previously attributed to the Lombard school, largely because of its Italian pure profile format, but its technique appears to be northern European. In the 1520s such portraits became fashionable in Augsburg, where the Imperial Hapsburg court had close ties with Lom...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art