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Original fileSelf-portrait
Self-portrait title QS:P1476,en:"Self-portrait "label QS:Len,"Self-portrait "label QS:Les,"Autorretrato"label QS:Lhu,"Önarckép"label QS:Leu,"Autoerretratua"label QS:Lca,"Autoretrat"label QS:Lde,"Selbstporträt"label QS:Lbe,"Аўтапартрэт, Рафаэль"label QS:Lhy,"Ինքնանկար"label QS:Lzh,"自画像"label QS:Lda,"Selvportræt"label QS:Ltr,"Otoportre"label QS:Lja,"自画像 (ラファエロ)"label QS:Larz,"تصوير شخصى (رافايللو)"label QS:Luk,"Автопортрет"label QS:Lla,"Effigies sui ipsius"label QS:Lfi,"Omakuva"label QS:Lkk,"Автопортрет"label QS:Leo,"Memportreto"label QS:Lbs,"Autoportret"label QS:Lit,"Autoritratto"label QS:Lfr,"Autoportrait"label QS:Lsv,"Självporträtt"label QS:Lhr,"Autoportret"label QS:Lvec,"Autoritrato"label QS:Lbg,"Автопортрет"label QS:Lcy,"Hunanbortread"label QS:Lsk,"Autoportrét"label QS:Let,"Autoportree"label QS:Lvi,"Chân dung tự họa (Raffaello)"label QS:Lro,"Autoportret"label QS:Lnds,"Sülvstporträt"label QS:Laz,"Avtoportret"label QS:Llt,"Autoportretas"label QS:Lsl,"Avtoportret"label QS:Lhe,"דיוקן עצמי"label QS:Lpt,"Autorretrato"label QS:Lga,"féinphortráid"label QS:Lth,"ภาพเหมือนตนเอง"label QS:Lpl,"Autoportret"label QS:Lfa,"چهرهٔ خود"label QS:Lnl,"Self-portrait"label QS:Lsr,"Аутопортрет"label QS:Lel,"Αυτοπροσωπογραφία"label QS:Lru,"Автопортрет"label QS:Lmk,"Автопортрет (Рафаело)"label QS:Lgl,"Autorretrato"label QS:Lar,"بورتريه ذاتي"label QS:Lbr,"Emboltred"label QS:Lcs,"Autoportrét"
About This Work
A young man with long brown hair looks back over his shoulder toward the viewer with a steady, soft gaze. He is dressed in a modest black cap and dark doublet with a narrow white collar, set against a muted, neutral background that emphasizes the light on his face.
Raphael was a central figure of the High Renaissance whose work synthesized classical form with Christian and Neoplatonic thought. This portrait represents the artist who would later create 'The School of Athens,' the definitive visual summary of the Western philosophical tradition and the intellectual lineage of the Renaissance.
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The School of Athens
Raphael included a nearly identical self-portrait of himself within this fresco, positioning the artist among the great philosophers and scientists of antiquity.