Louvre-Lens - La Galerie du temps (2014) - 132 - INV 614 (B)

The painting shows two bearded men in dark Renaissance clothing. Raphael, in the background, places a hand on the shoulder of his companion, who turns back toward the artist while pointing forward into the viewer's space. The composition emphasizes a close personal bond and a shared intellectual or social moment.

This work embodies the Renaissance ideal of 'Amicitia' (friendship), which was central to Neoplatonic circles like those of Marsilio Ficino, who viewed spiritual friendship as a path to divine understanding. It also captures the artist as an intellectual figure moving within the elite humanist and philosophical courts of 16th-century Rome.