More pictures of the Louvre-Lens museum
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Angel’s head : fragment of decoration from the basilica of Torcello depicting the Last Judgement. Mosaic.
Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529), writer and diplomat. Oil on canvas.
This work, an archetypal friend’s portrait, realistically represents an Italian intellectual and diplomat, author of the book of manners “The Book of the Courtier”, which set out the notion of the “honest man”.
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