RAFFAELLO Sanzio
(b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Roma)

Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi (detail)

1518-19
Oil on wood, width of detail: 35 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

There is nothing idealized in the slightly puffed head of the near-sighted Pope, who has just examined an old manuscript (somewhat similar in style and period to the Queen Mary's Psalter).




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