raphael, Lady with a unicorn

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)

Italian renaissance painter (1483–1520)

From his beginnings as a painter in his native Marche and later Florence, Raphael became famous in Rome, becoming the city’s most sought-after artist.

He died at the young age of 37 at the height of his artistic career.

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A portrait painting of a young woman with blonde hair, wearing a yellow dress with a white blouse and red velvet sleeves. She holds a small dog in her lap and wears a gold necklace with a red pendant and a pearl. The background features a landscape with blue sky and distant mountains, framed with an ornate gold frame.

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