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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/

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Year Created
1510 1
Medium
Red chalk on paper 1
Location
Royal Library, Turin 1
Height (metres)
0.333 1
Classification
Genre
Drawing 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Drawing 1
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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
  • Article text
    The drawing has been drawn in fine, unique lines, shadowed by hatching and executed with the left hand, as was Leonardo's habit.
  • lead paragraph
    Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (c. 1510) is a drawing currently in the collection of the Royal Library of Turin. It is widely, though not universally, accepted as a self-portrait of the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is
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