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It is not known. Heracleitus looks like Michelangelo.
Among others Pope Julius II, Elisabetta Gonzaga, Baldassare Castiglione, Bindi Altoviti, Agnolo Doni, Maddalena Doni, anf his girlfriend 'La Fornarina'. That is not what you wanted to know, is it? But that's what you asked.
Because the Farnese family commissioned him to.
In 1518. Pope Leo X had arranged the marriage of his nephew, Lorenzo II de Medici with Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne , cousin of François I, the Valois King of France. Leo X commissioned Raphael of Urbino to paint his portrait in order to interchange it, as it was a normal practice on those years, with his future wife´s one.
1515
Tradition says that Luke did paint a portrait of Mary.
In Florence.
About 100.
Oil paint on canvas.
The Madonna was a wedding gift from Raphael to his friend Lorenzo Nasi.
Raphael did not paint this subject, nor did he make any prints.
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