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Portrait of a Knight

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  • Savoldo, Giovanni Girolamo: Elijah Fed by the Raven
    In Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

    …treatment in such works as Portrait of a Knight (c. 1525). Savoldo defined his luminous, meticulously detailed figures by setting them against darkened, twilit skies, a technique that culminated in Saint Matthew and the Angel (1530–35) and St. Mary Magdalene Approaching the Sepulchre (c. 1535). The portrait long known as…

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