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Born in Verona, Fracastoro was a celebrated medical doctor, as well as an astronomer, mathematician and poet.
He acquired great fame for being the first to identify the disease syphilis. The painting of his spotted lynx coat is particularly arresting.
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Read how the National Gallery discovered this portrait was painted by Titian
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN