The poet Charles Baudelaire said that the portrait was a modest genre, but it required a great deal of intelligence from the creator, because it was not enough to reproduce what he saw, but also to show what was hidden, behind the face of the model. A portrait, then, is the fruit of a silent dialogue between artist and model that goes far beyond physical similarity. It is the result of precise work that conveys the moment and captures the…
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