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The look of love? Why this young man is not everything he appears to be. Find out more about judging appearances from the Renaissance – with writer Alexander Sturgis.

 

From the National Gallery DVD, 'Portraits: Judging by Appearances'

 

Find out more about Moretto da Brescia, Portrait of a Young Man, about 1540-5

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