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About This Work
The figure is depicted in a three-quarter view with long, flowing hair and an enigmatic expression. He wears a pleated white shirt and a dark mantle with thick fur trim, posed against an interior wall with a window revealing a distant landscape. This work is a famous lost masterpiece of the High Renaissance, looted from the Czartoryski Museum during World War II.
Raphael was a central figure in the Neoplatonic intellectual circles of the High Renaissance, and his portraits often captured the humanistic ideal of dignity and grace. This work represents the aesthetic of the Court of Urbino, a major center for Renaissance humanism and the development of the 'ideal gentleman.'
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ART FROM THE RENASCENCE 174 In 1818 a school of painting was created in the University ; its first teachers, Peszka (d. 1831), and Brodowski (d. 1853), were insignificant as artists, and did not contribute much to the 83. THE PRINCE OF URBINO. (In the Czartoryski Museum.) (Raphael.) development of art. Only in 1835 there came from Rome a pupil of Vincentio Camucci, named Adalbert Stattler-Stanski (1800-1882), who reorganized the school by his activity as JABŁ. i Sp.