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Raphael: Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami [1509]
Raffaello Santi
Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami [1509]
Boston Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami is an oil painting by Italian artist Raphael. Painted ca. 1509, it exists in two copies, one of which is in display in the Palatina Gallery in Florence and the other in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Known for its realism and attention to detail, it relates stylistically to Raphael's Portrait of Agnolo Doni, ca.1506, in what Claudio Strinati described in 1998 as its "merciless clarity."
The subject of the painting was a friend of Raphael's, a prelate nicknamed Phaedra. A popular orator and actor, Tommaso Inghirami suffered from strabismus. The painting is "the first likeness into which Raphael introduced the concept of movement", in the twist of his body as he contemplates his composition. By means of this device, Raphael focused attention away from his subject's disfigurement.
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Raphael: Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami [1509]
Raffaello Santi
Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami [1509]
Boston Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami is an oil painting by Italian artist Raphael. Painted ca. 1509, it exists in two copies, one of which is in display in the Palatina Gallery in Florence and the other in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Known for its realism and attention to detail, it relates stylistically to Raphael's Portrait of Agnolo Doni, ca.1506, in what Claudio Strinati described in 1998 as its "merciless clarity."
The subject of the painting was a friend of Raphael's, a prelate nicknamed Phaedra. A popular orator and actor, Tommaso Inghirami suffered from strabismus. The painting is "the first likeness into which Raphael introduced the concept of movement", in the twist of his body as he contemplates his composition. By means of this device, Raphael focused attention away from his subject's disfigurement.
Abbreviated after wikipedia: