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Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk

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Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk is a drawing made around 1510 and now held in the Royal Library in Turin. It is widely, though not universally, accepted by scholars as a self-portrait Leonardo da Vinci made of himself in his later years, and it has become one of the best-known images used to represent Leonardo as an archetypal Renaissance polymath, even though some historians still dispute whether the sitter is really Leonardo himself. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1510 1
Medium
Red chalk on paper 1
Location
Royal Library, Turin 1
Height (metres)
0.333 1
Classification
Genre
Drawing 1
Sources
1. Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (c. 1510)
  • Infobox, type
    Red chalk on paper
  • Infobox, museum
    Royal Library
  • Infobox, height_metric
    33.3
  • Genre reference
    Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk is a drawing made around 1510 and now held in the Royal Library in Turin.
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