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Portrait of Raffaele Grassi

1530 · Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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The few works by this painter to have survived immediately remind us of Pordenone because of the impassioned way the figures are arranged and a characteristic tendency to make the forms ample, almost swollen, thus giving us the presentiment of a freer, almost seventeenth-century use of the line. In this painting, which for a time was thought to be the portrait of the famous architect and sculptor Sansovino, was later recognized as Raffaele Grassi, father of the painter and architect Giovanbattista.

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Portrait of Raffaele Grassi