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Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)






Date : between 1514 and 1515

Sizes : 67 cm x 82 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Louis XIV collection (1661)
Louvre Museum

Denon Wing
First floor - Section 08b
Item 5 on 6
Italian Painting
Painting (Portrait)

Area related
Italy

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The portrait's subject is Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529), poet, humanist, and ambassador, whom Raphael first met as a young man in Urbino. Famous for writing The Courtier, published in 1528 and dedicated to describing the ideal man of the court, Castiglione found a friend in Raphael, both men sharing the same ideas regarding beauty and harmony.
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