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Portrait of the Young Cardinal Ippolito I d'Este

Raphael1503–1505

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Budapest, Hungary

In a note dating from 1530 the Venetian patrician and art lover Marcantonio Michiel mentions a portrait painted by Raphael of the poet and humanist Pietro Bembo, which he saw in Bembo's house in Padua. The picture was painted in Urbino sometime between 1504 and 1506: in other words it is one of Raphael's early works. As such, the tight space, the motif of the parapet, and the somewhat unnatural positioning of the hands resting on it still betray the influence of Netherlandish models and of Perugino. Bembo became one of the leading figures of Renaissance literary life primarily with his poems written in the style of Petrarch, his treatise on love, Gli Asolani, and his linguistic-stylistic work entitled Prose.

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  • Title: Portrait of the Young Cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
  • Creator: Raphael
  • Date Created: 1503–1505
  • Physical Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm
  • Type: paintings
  • Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
  • Rights: http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/rights_and_reproductions
  • External Link: http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/adatlap_eng/10288
  • Medium: oil on walnut, reinforced on pine
  • Inventory Number: 72
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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