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Portraying the ideal: what this anonymous sitter might be trying to tell us.

From the National Gallery DVD, 'Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian'

Find out more about the 2008/2009 exhibition Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian

Find out more about Palma Vecchio, Portrait of a Poet, about 1516

Antonio Mazzotta

Colin Wiggins introduces 'Christina of Denmark'

Introducing 'Lady with a Squirrel and Starling'

Writer Alexander Sturgis on facial expressions: 'Portrait of a Young Man'

Curators Chris Riopelle and Jane Spooner on Lady Jane Grey

Portraying 'Lady Cockburn and her Three Eldest Sons'

Introducing 'Portrait of a Poet'

Introducing 'Portrait of Giovanni della Volta with his Wife and Children'

Decipher the identity of 'Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia'

Introducing 'The Tailor'

Writer Alexander Sturgis explores Moroni's portraits

The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN