Baldassare Castiglione
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Renaissance social
ideal: poet, scholar
The Courtier:
nobleness of birth, wit
comely shape of
person and
countenance, grace,
capable in arms,
ingenuity and loyalty,
pleasant, discreet
Raphael
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Recorded Castiglione’s appearance and
manner
Grace and bearing: plays of shadow and
light
Pyramid-shape: stability
Left arm: barrier between him and viewer
Frontal face: cordiality without intimacy
Hands: inner grace of Castiglione
Portrait of a
Young Man by
Bronzino
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Duccio
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Rucellai Madonna.
c. 1285.
The
Madonna
and Child
with
Saints
c. 1445
Medieval
Renaissance